(prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
(verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line.
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