What is the meaning of hypercatalectic?

noun

  • Prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot. (

adjective

  • Verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot. (.
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