HEMISTICH meaning: Half of a line, poetry

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hemistich: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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hemistich: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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hemistich: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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HEMISTICH: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hemistich)

▸ noun: An approximate half-line of verse, separated from another by a caesura, often for dramatic effect.
▸ noun: An unfinished line of verse.

Opposite:

pentastich, hexastich, heptastich

Adjectives:

first, second, last, next, upper, single, final, third, latter, fourth, initial

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