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Acatalectic

adjective
1.
(verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot.





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... I pretend to no originality in either the rhythm or metre of the "Raven." The former is trochaic—the latter is octametre acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic. Less pedantically, the feet employed throughout (trochees) consists of a long syllable followed ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
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