1) Metrically incomplete 2) Poetic rhythm
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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, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line. Making a meter cataletic can drastically change the feeling of the poem, and is often used to achieve a certain ...
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incomplete; missing final syllable
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a type of verse termed by George Puttenham in 1589 'maimed' because it is missing a syllable in the last foot. An acatalectic verse is complete. A hypercatalectic line has an extra syllable. The three types can be seen below in the last foot of this tercet: Hamlet cries his mother's tainted. Gertrude nearly falls down, faint. Hamlet's father swears...
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• (a.) Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. • (a.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
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In poetry, a catalectic line is a truncated line in which one or more unstressed syllables have been
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A type of verse termed by george puttenham in 1589 'maimed' because it is missing a syllable in the
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Cat`a·lec'tic adjective [ Latin
catalecticus , Greek ... incomplete, from ... to leave off;
kata` down, wholly +
lh`gein to stop.]
1. (Pros.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a
catalectic verse.
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[
adj] - (verse) metrically incomplete
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adjective (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
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