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Definition of Hemistich
1. n. Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Definition of Hemistich
1. Noun. An approximate half-line of verse, separated from another by a caesura, often for dramatic effect ¹
2. Noun. An unfinished line of verse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hemistich
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemistich
Literary usage of Hemistich
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"The strength of a line in our language consists principally in saying something
in each hemistich. Some philosophers have asserted that force is a property ..."
2. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1905)
"Out of this, at a later date, by the dropping of the second hemistich, grew the
Haikai or Hokku, an ultra-Lilliputian class of poem having hut seventeen ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... cation of Jeronimo is very striking: this is the frequent insertion of a
hemistich in the midst of a speech in blank verse of several lines. ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"hemistich, in poetry, denotes half a verse, or a verse not completed. HEMP.
See Ci. ... hemistich ..."
5. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THE OLD ENGLISH ALLITERATIVE i,i~_ line would then sound like a normal line
without alliteration the second hemistich. ' The expansion, therefore, takes ..."
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