Results for Hypermeter

Definitions of Hypermeter:

Anything greater than the ordinary standard of measure; a line or verse of poetry containing a syllable more than the usual number.

Usage examples for Hypermeter:

• Hart thus: The Dactylic Tetrameter, Pentameter, and Hexameter, with the additional or hypermeter syllable, are all found combined in the following extraordinary specimen of versification. "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown

• One long syllable is, in some instances, used as a foot; but it is one or more short syllables only, that we can properly admit as hypermeter "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown

• 51. Can it be right, to regard as hypermeter the long rhyming syllables of a line? "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown

• A prosodist might just as well scan all iambics into trochaics, by pronouncing each initial short syllable to be hypermeter "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown