- hypercatalexis
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the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.[1885-1890; see HYPERCATALECTIC, -SIS]
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▪ prosodyin prosody, the occurrence of an additional syllable at the end of a line of verse after the line is metrically complete; especially (in verse measured by dipodies), the occurrence of a syllable after the last complete dipody. A feminine ending is a form of hypercatalexis.* * *
Universalium. 2010.