hypercatalexis


hy·per·cat·a·lec·tic

H0357100 (hī′pər-kăt′l-ĕk′tĭk)adj. Having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete line of verse or in a metrical foot.
[Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Greek huperkatalēktikos : huper-, hyper- + katalēktikos, incomplete; see catalectic.]
hy′per·cat′a·lex′is (-kăt′l-ĕk′sĭs) n.

hypercatalexis

(ˌhaɪpəkætəˈlɛksɪs) n, pl hypercatalexes (Poetry) prosody the addition of an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a line of verse already metrically complete