Definition of "acatalectic" []

• Having a metrically complete pattern, especially having the full number of syllables in the final foot. Used of verse. (adjective)

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• "” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic."
• "With the latter, it has the same kind of verse with its masculine and feminine rhymes and a similar rhythm, the only difference being that the order of the catalectic and acatalectic verses is dissiimilar."
• "He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic."