acatalectic

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-- CEDO ... CITO: the line is of the kind called tetrameter iambic acatalectic (or octonarius), and is scanned thus v v v v In all kinds of iambic verse the old Romans freely introduced spondees where the Greeks used iambi; so in hexameters spondees for dactyls.

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  1. adjective Having a metrically complete pattern, especially having the full number of syllables in the final foot. Used of verse.

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  • He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • -- CEDO ... CITO: the line is of the kind called tetrameter iambic acatalectic (or octonarius), and is scanned thus v v v v In all kinds of iambic verse the old Romans freely introduced spondees where the Greeks used iambi; so in hexameters spondees for dactyls. —  Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
  • The reason of this unusual rapidity of movement is the unusual character of the eight-syllable verse as acatalectic, almost all other kinds of verse being catalectic on at least one syllable, implying a final pause of corresponding duration Mr. Patmore here shows that the rime in this lovely "Night and Sleep" is merely accessory, a lightly played accompaniment to a song which would be as beautiful a song without it, yet which gains a certain accent through this accompaniment; and that the real questions in verse are of rhythm and time. —  Confessions of a Book-Lover
  • The former is trochaic--the latter is octametre acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic. —  Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
  • The value of the suppressed measure would therefore be 2.15, a ratio of acatalectic to elided group of 1.000: 0.581. —  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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  1. Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Greek akatalēktikos : a-, not; see a-1 + katalēktikos, incomplete; see catalectic.

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  1. from Latin acatalēcticus, also acatalēctus, from Greek ἀκατάληκτος, not stopping, from ἀ- privative + *κατάληκτος, καταληκτικός, leaving off, stopping: see catalectic.
 

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