Hendecasyllable verse (in Italian endecasillabo)'s a kind of verse used mostly in Italian poetry, defined by its having the last stress on the tenth syllable. When, as often happens, this stress falls on the penultimate syllable, the line has exactly eleven syllables (and the literal meaning of the word's just "of eleven syllables"). The most usual stress schemes for an hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables (for example, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita," Dante Alighieri,… (More on Hendecasyllable)