Acephalous line
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Acephalous line
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An acephalous or headless line is a variety of catalectic line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllable's omission. Acephalous lines are usually deliberate variations in scansion, but this is not always obvious. It is a technique employed often in the concluding lines of hymn texts, and has been employed in poetry to change tone or announce a conclusion, including its use in A. E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young." Robert Wallace argues in his essay "
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2023-12-19T13:52:40Z
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