catalectic

Adjective
  1. (verse) metrically incomplete;
    Especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot (synset 300318980)
Noun
  1. (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot (synset 106359870)
    referred to in: metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
    is a type of: line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem

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