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catalexis
noun
()
the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse
Words Related to
catalexis
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catalectic
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hypercatalexis
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dipody
,
acatalectic
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line of poetry
,
metrical foot
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epitrite
,
proceleusmatic
,
cretic
,
monometer
,
amphimacer
,
amphibrach
,
bacchius
,
dispondee
,
hendecasyllable
,
apocope
,
synizesis
,
octameter
,
hypermeter
,
asynartete
,
internal rhyme
,
antibacchius
,
poetic rhythm
,
choriambus
,
rhyme scheme
,
pedalian
,
antepenultima
,
trisyllable
,
tetrasyllable
,
eye rhyme
,
masculine rhyme
,
feminine rhyme
,
ditrochee
,
rhyme royal
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cynghanedd
,
decasyllable
,
choriamb
,
apocopate
,
apocopation
,
rhopalic
,
choliambic
,
paragoge
,
syllable
,
octosyllable
,
heptameter
,
choliamb
,
pentasyllabic
,
hexastich
,
glyconian
,
monorhyme
,
metaplasm
,
ecthlipsis
,
asclepiad
,
prosimetrical
,
metrify
,
quinquesyllable
,
septisyllable
,
tetrasyllabic
,
quadrisyllable
,
synecphonesis
,
pitch accent
,
dodecasyllabic
,
language unit
,
synaeresis
,
tetracolon
,
minimal pair
,
priapean
,
syllabicity
,
acute accent
,
antepenult
,
disyllable
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senarius
,
epibole
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syllabogram
,
syllabism
,
brachyology
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alcaic verse
,
tiercet
,
dodecasyllable
,
mismeter
,
heroic verse
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italian sonnet
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immetrical
,
parelcon
,
oxytone
,
accent mark
,
spenserian sonnet
,
figure of speech
,
monostrophe
,
choreus
,
syllabize
,
overword
,
tetrameter
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perfect rhyme
,
versicular
,
transprose
,
epanadiplosis
,
antimetathesis
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polyptoton
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dactylist
,
catalexis
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