This form is not to be confused with 'hendecasyllabic verse', a quantitative meter used by Catullus.

Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry.

It consists of 295 hendecasyllabic verses.

This poem is written in hendecasyllabic verse, a meter in which each line has eleven syllables and four poetic feet.

Catullus wrote in many different meters including hendecasyllabic verse and elegiac couplets (common in love poetry).

Another form of hendecasyllabic verse is the "Sapphic" (so named for its use in the Sapphic stanza), with the pattern:

Edmund Leo Wright, The Horwich Hennets (the poet invented the "hennet", a 12-line hendecasyllabic verse with the rhymes "abacbcde deff")

The form is two hendecasyllabic verses, and a third verse beginning the same way and continuing with five additional syllables (given as the stanza's fourth verse in ancient and modern editions, and known as the Adonic or adonean line).

Maggi, who had nothing to offer, may have sought protection from Aretino, or hoped to avoid harsh criticism from him, when he sang the following hendecasyllabic verses, published in his 1551 Guerro di Fiandro (Canto II, verse 56):