Poem 25 by Catullus is in iambic tetrameter catalectic.
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It is sometimes called catalectic trochaic tetrameter.
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In ancient Greek drama, catalectic meters may have been associated with a male aulete or had some other special use.
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The trochaic septenarius is a catalectic line; that is, it consists of eight trochaic diaeresis after the fourth foot.
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He changed the meter in one long scene in Misanthrope to 15-syllable catalectic iambic tetrameter recited to an aulos accompaniment.
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The word catalectic refers to an incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.
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The Choerilean metre ( a catalectic hexameter ), mentioned by the grammarians, is probably so called because the above line is the oldest extant specimen.
For instance, in " Midsummer Night's Dream ", Shakespeare frequently writes the lines of his fairies in catalectic trochaic tetrameter, as is evidenced by Puck's lines, here:
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The galliambic is a catalectic ionic tetrameter; Catullus used galliambic meter for his " Carmen " 63 on the mythological figure Attis, a portion of which is spoken in the person of Cybele.