But the delicate interchange of the catalectic and acatalectic dimeter, the wonderful plays and changes of cadence, the opening, as it were, of fresh stops at the beginning of each new paragraph of the verse, so that the music acquires a new colour, the felicity of the several phrases, the cunning heightening of the passion as the poet comes to "Oh!
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
acatalectic tetrameter of iambs marching.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
In this, according to the technical language of the old prosodists, when a syllable is wanting, the verse is said to be catalectic; when the measure is exact, the line is acatalectic; when there is a redundant syllable, it forms hypermeter.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown