hypermetrical

Updated: June 2, 2025

is irregular according to the foot-rule of traditional prosody, when it is probable, as Mr. Is it not true, furthermore, as some metrical sceptics like to remind us, that if we once admit the principle of substitution and equivalence, of hypermetrical and truncated syllables, of pauses taking the place of syllables, we can very often make one metre seem very much like another?

Bliss Perry - A Study of Poetry