Usage examples (4)

• Mr Guest's rule, ending the verse, and where it would, consequently, make a hypercatalectic eleventh syllable, still be pronounced -- as
• The rhythm of the lines is marked, the effect upon the ear being quite like that of English iambic pentameters hypercatalectic.
• He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic.
• The normal line of which these quatrains are composed is a thirteen-syllabled one divided by a central pause, so that the first half is an iambic dimeter catalectic, and the...