acatalexis

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Acatalexis, in prosody, refers to the metrical completeness of a line of verse. It is the opposite of catalexis, which is an omission or incompleteness in the final metrical foot of a line. Hypercatalexis, on the other hand, is when an extra syllable occurs after a line is already metrically complete. Acatalexis signifies that a line of poetry has reached its intended metrical structure without any missing or extra elements at the end.123

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catalexis and acatalexis
acatalexis, in prosody, an omission or incompleteness in the last foot of a line or other unit in metrical verse and, conversely, the metrical completeness of such a unit.
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acatalexis, in prosody, an omission or incompleteness in the last foot of a line or other unit in metrical verse and, conversely, the metrical completeness of such a unit.
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