Dodecasyllable

Dodecasyllable verse (Italian:dodecasillabo) is a line of verse with twelve syllables. 12 syllable lines are used in a variety of poetic traditions.

Jacob of Serugh (c. 451 – 29 November 521), a Miaphysite Bishop of Batnan da-Srugh, also called 'Flute of the Spirit' who composed in the dodecasyllabic verse more than seven-hundred verse homilies, or mêmrê (ܡܐܡܖ̈ܐ), of which only 225 have thus far been edited and published.