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A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness...

classical trochaic tetrameter contains 16 syllables (15 syllables if catalectic). The rhythm of a line of an English trochaic tetrameter is: Using the...

One poem uses iambic tetrameter catalectic (25), which consists of two iambic dimeters, the second one catalectic (i.e. shortened by one syllable)....

this case the metre is called "catalectic". For example, the following metre is known as a trochaic tetrameter catalectic (in Latin it is known as a trochaic...

opening [o-.-] [o-.-] [o-.-] line 1 parodos 230–47 iambic tetrameter catalectic Chorus enters escorted by boys [o-.-] [o-.-] [o-.-] [o--](trochees are...

was a combination of octameter acatalectic, heptameter catalectic, and tetrameter catalectic. The rhyme scheme is ABCBBB, or AA,B,CC,CB,B,B when accounting...

– | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓ – – | ( trimeter catalectic) | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | (dimeter) | ⏓ ⏓ ⏑ – | ⏓ – – | (dimeter catalectic) Uniquely among the classical Arabic...

limited significance or utility, at least by comparison to its antonym, catalectic, for the simple reason that acatalexis is considered to be the "usual...

Philips had written a series of odes in a new prosody of seven-syllable catalectic trochaic tetrameter and dedicated it to "all ages and characters, from...

variation on this metre was the iambic septenarius, or iambic tetrameter catalectic. This was similar but with the last syllable omitted. The example below...

down... The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic (each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress...

(written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter for three lines, followed by a catalectic line of only three iambs), relates the story of a hopeless romantic who...

u – | x u – – | In two of the examples below, the metre is used in a catalectic trimeter version (i.e. shortened by one syllable), as follows: فَاعِلَاتُنْ...

well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic (a dialogue meter borrowed from Old Comedy). Horace, whose career spanned...

Philippines. It consists of 17 cycles with 72,000 lines in iambic tetrameter or catalectic trochaic tetrameter. Each cycle pertains to a different self-contained...

Pie Iesu, abandons rhyme for assonance, and, moreover, its lines are catalectic. In the liturgical reforms of 1969–71, stanza 19 was deleted and the poem...

Latini minores (1879–1883). There is one 4-line poem in iambic dimeter catalectic; 8 short poems (26 lines in all) in trochaic septenarius; and 5 poems...

of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. The last foot is catalectic, consisting only of the stressed syllable: Ship me / somewheres / east...

well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic (a dialogue meter borrowed from Old Comedy). Horace, whose career crossed...

of psychological and philosophical subtlety. The trochaic tetrameter catalectic—four pairs of trochees per line, with the final syllable omitted—was identified...