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catalexis

NOUN
  1. the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse

How To Use catalexis In A Sentence

  • What does that say about the prospects for assimilation of newcomers from Mexico? catalexis Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Land of Many Kims
  • Maybe something they've internalized about rhythm leads them to create a catalexis instead of planning out a catalexis ahead of time.
  • Actually a mixed meter with anapests and iambs and some nice catalexis thrown in.
  • The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
  • The final foot of the fourth line is an example of catalexis, the dropping of one or more unstressed syllables at the end of a line.
  • Getting the vapors over a critic screaming his outrage in full-throated disgust at the abandonment of humane ideals is to play the courtly stooge in a manner most unbecoming an honest mind. — catalexis Easing Off Online Obscenities - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Report this comment to the moderators catalexis Writes: And a bit more on real manhood
  • a rule, the position and amount of catalexis are fixed. The Unknown Eros
  • Nearly all English metres owe their existence as metres to "catalexis," or pause, for the time of one or more feet, and, as The Unknown Eros
  • The poem is in trochaic tetrameter with catalexis at the end of each line.
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