Nowadays Polish alexandrine lines are often mixed with hendecasyllable ones in one poem. The Polish hendecasyllable is often combined with an 8-syllable line&colon; 11a/8b/11a/8b. In the 16th century, the verso de arte mayor gave way to the Italianate hendecasyllable. The hendecasyllable () is the principal metre in Italian poetry. In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables.