OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 51963

hemistich

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hemistiquio
An approximate half-line of verse, separated from another by a caesura, often for dramatic effect.
[…] I would first agree with [Earl] Wasserman that the last line ["[shapes] Which walk upon the sea, and chaunt melodiously"] alludes to Jesus walking on water, the point of the al…
hemistiquio
An unfinished line of verse.
Phrases