The last foot (catalectic) is not comparable in these dactylic stanzas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The stanza is thus seen to comprise three tetrameter trochaic catalectic verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Dactylic tetrameters (catalectic); variations of each element from the average foot of the entire stanza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

This was none other than a favourite metre of Aristophanes, -- iambic tetrameter catalectic, our own ballad rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hymns of the Eastern Church] Reference

He explained to me most seriously the differences between trimeter Iambics when they were catalectic, acatalectic, hypercatalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]

Shakspeare never introduces a catalectic line without intending an equivalent to the foot omitted in the pauses, or the dwelling emphasis, or the diffused retardation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

Shakespeare never introduces a catalectic line without intending an equivalent to the foot omitted in the pauses, or the dwelling emphasis, or the diffused retardation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

I am not going to change my caesuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference

The sort of verses to which Mr. Coleridge alluded are the following, which those who consider the scansion to be accentual, take for tetrameter catalectic iambics, like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

The remaining stanzas discard the scheme of triple rhymes in favour of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines use assonance instead of rhyme and are, moreover, catalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

But the verse in which this volume is written is catalectic par excellence, employing the pause (as it does the rhyme) with freedom only limited by the exigencies of poetic passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unknown Eros] Reference

” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of Composition] Reference

With the latter, it has the same kind of verse with its masculine and feminine rhymes and a similar rhythm, the only difference being that the order of the catalectic and acatalectic verses is dissiimilar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

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 second an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

The reason of this unusual rapidity of movement is the unusual character of the eight-syllable verse as acatalectic, almost all other kinds of verse being catalectic on at least one syllable, implying a final pause of corresponding duration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Book-Lover] Reference

Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature] Reference

In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately acatalectic and catalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

(catalectic) tetrameters (cf. Table VII.) shows that the verse pause is always at least one fourth larger than the foot pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

'regulæ' must be first known; -- though I will venture to say, that he who does not find a line (not corrupted) of Massinger's flow to the time total of a trimeter catalectic iambic verse, has not read it aright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

These characters include the whole time occupied by each verse of the stanza, the relative values of acatalectic and catalectic verses occurring within the same stanza structure, differences in rhythmical melody between the latter forms, the variations of average intensity in the accentual elements of such lines, and a determination of the values of rests of higher and lower degrees -- mid-line, verse, and couplet pauses -- which appear in the various stanza forms, and their relation to other structural elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

(Iambic dimeter catalectic.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets] Reference

Dactylic, catalectic couplet of the general form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

"catalectic verse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unknown Eros] Reference

Dactyls, catalectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

But the delicate interchange of the catalectic and acatalectic dimeter, the wonderful plays and changes of cadence, the opening, as it were, of fresh stops at the beginning of each new paragraph of the verse, so that the music acquires a new colour, the felicity of the several phrases, the cunning heightening of the passion as the poet comes to "Oh! love me then, and now begin it," and the dying fall of the close, make up to me, at least, most charming pastime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference