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Acatalectic   Listen
adjective
Acatalectic  adj.  (Pros.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Acatalectic" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the early critics, and continually chosen by poets in all times for erotic poetry on account of its joyful air. The reason of this unusual rapidity of movement is the unusual character of the eight-syllable verse as acatalectic, almost all other kinds of verse being catalectic on at least one syllable, implying a final ...
— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan



Words linked to "Acatalectic" :   metrics, prosody, catalectic, line of poetry, line of verse, hypercatalectic



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