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n. A half line of verse, especially when separated rhythmically from the rest of the line by a caesura.

n. An incomplete or imperfect line of verse.

n. An approximate half-line of verse, separated from another by a caesura, often for dramatic effect

n. An unfinished line of verse

n. Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

n. In prosody: The exact or approximate half of a line or verse; one of the two commata or sections of a line divided by the cesura or dieresis.

n. Any group of words forming part of a line, and considered or cited by itself; an incomplete or unfinished line.

n. A colon, comma, or group of feet of less extent than the average line, or than the other lines of the same poem or stanza, standing metrically by itself, or so written, as, for example, an epodic line, ephymnium, or refrain.

"Misrá‘ah or hemistich is half the “Bayt” which, for want of a better word, I have rendered couplet: this, however, though formally separated in Mss., is looked upon as one line, one verse; hence a word can be divided, the former part pertaining to the first and the latter to the second moiety of the distich."

iamb    polysyllable    `long'    disyllabic    trochee