hypermetrical in English
adjective
having one or more syllables on top of those in a standard metrical unit or line of verse; surpassing the normal measure
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1. At the end of a line, the "e" remains unelided but is hypermetrical (outside the count of syllables, like a feminine ending in English verse), in that case, the rhyme is also called "feminine", whereas it is called "masculine" in the other cases.