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Catalectic

adjective
1.
(verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot.





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"Catalectic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Priest's Confession Leigh Hunt Tonis ad Resto Mare Anonymous Die Dean Swift Moll Dean Swift To My Mistress Dean Swift A Love Song Dean Swift A Gentle Echo on Woman Dean Swift To my Nose Anonymous Roger and Dolly Blackwood The Irishman Blackwood A Catalectic Monody Cruikshank's Om. A New Song Gay Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist Hood Faithless Nelly Gray Hood No! Hood Jacob Omnium's Hoss Thackeray The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown Thackeray The Ballad of Eliza Davis Thackeray ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton


Words linked to "Catalectic" :   acatalectic, catalexis, hypercatalectic, line of poetry, prosody, line of verse, metrics


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