hypermeter
noun
a verse or line containing additional syllables after those proper to the meter.
hypermetrical
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a word derived from
hypermeter.
Example Sentences
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The unrestricted liberty of employing hypermetrical lines of eleven syllables, sanctioned by the highest authority in dramatic composition, has, I think, facilitated the attainment of this object.
From Sakoontala or the Lost Ring An Indian Drama by Sir Monier Monier-Williams
Sometimes there are two consecutive lines having such hypermetrical syllables— Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
Certainly in Wordsworth's verses the metrical effect cannot be called happy; the measure is made especially clumsy by the introduction of hypermetrical light syllables.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Q, her vertuous service; vertuous, which is obviously hypermetrical, has been repeated by mistake from the previous line. 47-48.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
Each hypermetrical half-line has usually three stresses, thus giving six stresses to the whole line instead of two.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
