catalectic in a sentence
Examples
- Trichas used the name "'archilocheion "'for the trochaic trimeter catalectic, ���� ���� ��? seen in Archilochus, fr . 197 West, and used stichically by Callimachus ( fr . 202 Pfeiffer ).
- For example, to describe Shakespeare's sonnets as having been written in " iambic pentameter acatalectic " would be factually accurate, but redundant and never said, because iambic pentameter is presumed to be acatalectic unless specified as being catalectic.
- However, in very rare contexts where catalexis might be considered probable ( e . g ., in English trochaic tetrameter, or in differentiating acatalectic verses from surrounding catalectic ones ), explicit expression of the verse's metrical completeness may be achieved by using the term.
- Poe, however, claimed the poem was a combination of octameter acatalectic, heptameter catalectic, and tetrameter catalectic . 20th-century American poet Daniel Hoffman suggested that the poem's structure and meter is so formulaic that it is artificial, though its mesmeric quality overrides that.
- Poe, however, claimed the poem was a combination of octameter acatalectic, heptameter catalectic, and tetrameter catalectic . 20th-century American poet Daniel Hoffman suggested that the poem's structure and meter is so formulaic that it is artificial, though its mesmeric quality overrides that.
- The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, ( each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair; the last foot in the line missing the unstressed syllable ), which is common in nursery rhymes.