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Definition of Hypercatalexis
1. Noun. (poetry) Adding one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypercatalexis
1. [n -LEXES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypercatalexis
Literary usage of Hypercatalexis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"hypercatalexis is found only in verses in ascending rhythm. According to the
division of the lyrics into verses adopted in this article, both forms of ..."
2. Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"... there is properly no such thing as hypercatalexis. All English verses^jn common
cadence are therefore ..."
3. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"... a line having a redundant half- foot (either thesis or arsis) is thus termed ;
hypercatalexis being such state of redundancy. Hy'po (Gk.) Under, ..."
4. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"Acephalous ' and ' hypercatalexis ' were ancient terms used to account for things
which the modern notion of ' anacrusis ' often explains in a simpler way. ..."
5. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"... There came to the beach," etc., if we regard the first foot as iambic, and
the last syllable as extra by what is called hypercatalexis. ..."
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