Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun Prosody.
- the exact or approximate half of a stich, or poetic verse or line, especially as divided by a caesura or the like.
- an incomplete line, or a line of less than the usual length.
noun
- prosody a half line of verse
“half a poetic line,” 1570s, from Middle French hémistiche, from Latin hemistichium, from Greek hemistikhion “half-line, half-verse,” from hemi- “half” (see hemi-) + stikhos “row, line of verse” (see stair).