Usage examples (10)

• The value of the suppressed measure would therefore be 2.15, a ratio of acatalectic to elided group of 1.000: 0.581.
• He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic.
• The syncopated measure, like the redundant, bears to the acatalectic group specific relations of duration, accentual stress, and position in the rhythmical sequence.
• ” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with...