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Hemistich, hem′i-stik, n. one of the two parts of a line of poetry as divided by the cesura: half a line, an incomplete or unfinished line: an epodic line or refrain.—adj.

His principal work is the Dīwān, that is, a collection of short odes or sonnets called ghazals, and consisting of from five to sixteen baits or couplets each, all the couplets in each ode having the same rhyme in the last hemistich, and the last couplet always introducing the poet’s own nom de plume.

And is not Sir Thomas Hammer quite correct in expression, when he alters the hemistich into "Wilt drink up Nile?"

In the black church, however, the appeal is primarily to the ear – the preacher taking a formulaic sermon and using a variety of oratorical techniques to conjure a kind of devotional intensity: improvisation, repetition, reinforcement, dramatic pauses, hemistich cadence, parallelism, the act of call-and-response harnessing that relationship between the preacher and the congregation, the individual and the community.

The Luccan and Umbrian stornello is much shorter, consisting indeed of a hemistich having some natural object which suggests the motive of the little poem.