catalectic

• He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
• Although the sonant is much longer when accented, the ratio between the sonant and the following interval is not definite An examination of thirty-two stanzas of unrhymed iambic and dactylic (catalectic) tetrameters (cf. Table VII.) —  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
• I am not going to change my caesuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it THIS IS IT A Prologue? —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• The last foot is obviously incomplete or _catalectic_. —  Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
• When is a verse or foot _catalectic_? —  Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism

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