(Translation: "Alas, for thee, O brother! Yonder, songless days await thee. Ah no, have no fear of the dead: they love thee! The living only shouldst thou fear!")
4. Hendecasyllable: example:
Per me si vá nella cittá dolénte,
Per me si vá nell'etérno dolóre,
Per me si vá tra la perdúta génte.
(Dante, Divina Commedia, Inferno.)
(Translation: "Through me ye enter the city of sorrow; through me ye enter the realm of eternal grief; through me ye enter the regions of the damned").
The typical ending of these various lines is the trochee (
, verso piano). The iambic (
, verso tronco) and the dactyllic (
