| 单词 | catalectic |
| 释义 | catalectic (once / 134311 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY catalectic: catalectically, hypercatalectic+/catalexis: catalectic USAGE EXAMPLESIambic tetrameter catalectic, formed of seven feet and a cæsura at the close of the line. Dunlop, John, History of Roman Literature from it...(2011) Here the alternate lines are catalectic, both light syllables being wanting. Alden, Raymond MacDonald, English Verse—Specimens Illustratin...(2010) The metre is Amphibrach dimeter Catalectic ˘ ¯ ˘ | ˘ ¯, and the rhymes antistrophic. Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, The Complete Poetical Works of Samu...(2010) 1adj (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot Ant acatalectic (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot hypercatalectic(verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot 2n (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot Hyper line of poetry, line of verse a single line of words in a poem |
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