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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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... in its upper part a youth with flying hair. Does this look like Erasmus in any respect? If this is not enough, they see written on the stone itself Terminus: if one takes this as the last word, that will make an iambic dimeter acatalectic, Concedo nulli Terminus; if one begins with this word, it will be a trochaic dimeter acatalectic, Terminus concedo nulli. What if I had painted a lion and added as a device 'Flee, unless you prefer to be torn to pieces'? Would they attribute these words to me instead ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga


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


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