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(of a line of verse) having the full number of syllables.
‘The term catalectic means the meter is short the final syllable (tongue would have to be tonguey to complete the trochee), and acatalectic means it is complete.’
‘A fierce opponent of literary plagiarism, Poe claims originality for his stanza form in ‘The Raven’: trochaic rhythm; octameter acatalectic alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in refrain of fifth verse.’
‘Unlike most English adjectives, ‘catalectic’ and its opposite ‘acatalectic’ usually follow the nouns they qualify: thus the last of Shelley's lines quoted above would be called a trochaic trimeter catalectic.’
‘When unstressed syllables are not dropped at the beginning or the end of a line, they are said to be acatalectic.’
noun
Prosody
A line of acatalectic verse.
‘In classical terms, the meter is a slightly irregular amphribachic trimeter, alternating acatalectic and catalectic.’