hemistich
noun/ˈhemistɪk/
/ˈhemistɪk/
(specialist)- a half of a line of poetry, especially in Old English poetryWord Originlate 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek hēmistikhion, from hemi- ‘half’ + stikhos ‘row, line of verse’.
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