Mr Guest's rule, ending the verse, and where it would, consequently, make a hypercatalectic eleventh syllable, still be pronounced -- as. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The rhythm of the lines is marked, the effect upon the ear being quite like that of English iambic pentameters hypercatalectic. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Mistral]
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]
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
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