Rove-over
adjective, Prosody.
1.
(in sprung rhythm) of or relating to the completion of a metrical foot, incomplete at the end of one line, with a syllable or syllables from the beginning of the next line.
adjective
1.
(prosody) (in sprung rhythm) denoting a metrical foot left incomplete at the end of one line and completed in the next
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