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catalectic |
(n): (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
(n): a single line of words in a poem
(adj): vs. hypercatalectic) (vs. acatalectic) -- ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
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A catalectic tetrameter of iambs marching.
Joyce, Ulysses, 3