Catalexis
Term in the study of poetic metre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with cataleptic. For the mathematical use, see catalecticant. For the genus of moth, see Catalexis (moth).
A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line.
A line missing two syllables is called brachycatalectic.