The hemistich is a kind of verse where long lines are split into two and linked by alliteration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Laird enters the spirit of Anglo-Saxon poetry] Reference

The strength of a line in our language consists principally in saying something in each hemistich.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

It has been especially observed, that the first hemistich is a broken or short line, and does not correspond with the next in length or rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

The "hemistich" occurs at the end of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'] Reference

B. omits hîe as occurring in the previous hemistich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf] Reference

E. compares the fatalism of this concluding hemistich with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf] Reference

"And what is this hemistich?" asked the chevalier, more and more astonished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental] Reference

Defective metre and sense, owing to the loss of a hemistich, but the sense is complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis A Translated from the Old English] Reference

There is no impropriety in it here, and the foregoing hemistich is rather lame without it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes] Reference

This line is apparently imperfect, metrically, for the second hemistich seems to be wanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis A Translated from the Old English] Reference

This hemistich will afford the true reading of this place, which is, I think, to be corrected thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

The compositor's eye (he says) may have glanced from 'succeed' to 'weakness' in a subsequent hemistich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

The initial unstressed syllable of the first hemistich is lacking in approximately one-third of the lines of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference

The concluding hemistich, whereby the hokku becomes the tanka, is existent in the writer's mind, but never uttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Prints] Reference

I have composed the first hemistich of a verse, but cannot finish it, although it has occupied my mind for some days. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference

Thus the second hemistich of the verse will refer to the deliverance of Israel from Midian by Gideon (Jud 6: 1-7: 25) to which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Arabs is looked upon as one line, he named "Bayt," nighting - place, tent or house; and the hemistich Misrá'ah, the one leaf of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

The necessary mental pause after every hemistich or imperfect line is always equal to the time that would have been taken in reading the complete verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

‘distichon’ (Holland) ‘distich’; ‘hemistichion’ (North) ‘hemistich’.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

“It’s most serious!” occupy less room than a hemistich does in an alexandrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

178 This dividing the hemistich words is characteristic of certain tales; so I have retained it although inevitably suggesting: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

289 In page 226 Dr. Steingass sensibly proposes altering the last hemistich (lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Read it, and if you find a single hemistich in it I will confess myself in the wrong. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Read it, and if you find a single hemistich in it I will confess myself in the wrong.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference

256 In the first hemistich, “bi-shitt ‘it wády” (by the wady-bank): in the second, “wa shatta ‘l wády”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Repeat the distich; also the hemistich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference