half-line
[haf-lahyn, hahf-]
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Origin of half-line
First recorded in 1910–15
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It is also the only alliterating syllable in the second half-line.
Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise BookC. Alphonso Smith
It is noteworthy that, out of these twenty-seven instances, the added n appears sixteen times at the end of line or half-line.
Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
The trichina capsules commonly measure about one-fifth of a line long, and the coiled worm within is scarcely a half-line long.
Type E inverts the rhythm of D, as in the half-line "gylp-wordum spræc."
English VerseRaymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.