Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having one or more syllables in addition to those found in a standard metrical unit or line of verse.
- adjective Being one of these additional syllables.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In prosody: Exceeding the correct measure; having a syllable at the end in excess of the meter represented; especially, dolichuric: as, a hypermetric verse or line, Of more than usual length; more than dicolic or tricolic: as, a hypermetric period. See hypermeter, hypermetron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
redundant syllable .
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Examples
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Inertia, as light, was timefree and could be transported through ghost holes to the urg's hypermetric locus where no human mind could reason its digestion.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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This hypermetric entity Zeke called an urg, because it sounded like erg, which was the quality that this thing had turned Carl's 150 - pound mass into.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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_hypermetric_; and that we must be very watchful about pauses, particularly about a somewhat mysterious chief pause, liable to occur about the middle of a line, called a _caesura_.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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Ireland.] [Footnote 16: There should be no hypermetric syllables, but I have been unable to avoid them.] [Footnote 17: _Horae Hebraicae_ in Evangel.
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