Definition of "hypermetrical" []

• Hypermetric (adjective)

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• "Ed.; Q, her vertuous service; vertuous, which is obviously hypermetrical, has been repeated by mistake from the previous line."
• "Sometimes there are two consecutive lines having such hypermetrical syllables --"
• "Is it not true, furthermore, as some metrical sceptics like to remind us, that if we once admit the principle of substitution and equivalence, of hypermetrical and truncated syllables, of pauses taking the place of syllables, we can very often make one metre seem very much like another?"