Crossword-Solution: HYPERMETRICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypermetrical | a. | Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “HYPERMETRICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of or like hypermeter | 1 answer |
| HAVING a redundant syllable (of verse) | 2 answers |
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Walk furtively (up to someone)
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
DSEIL
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with HYPERMETRICAL (5)
Sometimes there are two consecutive lines having such hypermetrical syllables-- Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities.
Each hypermetrical half-line has usually three stresses, thus giving six stresses to the whole line instead of two.
Two varieties of the feminine cesura are also distinguished: the Lyric, when the pause occurs inside a foot; _e.g._: "This wicked traitor, whom I thus accuse;" the Epic, when the pause occurs after an extra (hypermetrical) light syllable; _e.g._: "To Canterbury with ful devout corage." "But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives." The "epic" cesura is quite as characteristic of dramatic blank verse as of epic.
Such a syllable is frequently spoken of as "hypermetrical"; or, the variation may be considered as the substitution of an anapest for an iambus, in iambic measure, or the substitution of a dactyl for a trochee, in trochaic measure.
Certainly in Wordsworth's verses the metrical effect cannot be called happy; the measure is made especially clumsy by the introduction of hypermetrical light syllables.