Hemistich

(hm'e-stik.) [From Gr. hēmi, and stichos, verse.] (Lit.) Half a poetic verse, or an incomplete one. Such are the unfinished verses in the Eneid of Virgil. The French Alexandrine verse demands a regular pause at the end of the first H., and the common English verse one at the end of eachH. [s. 449]