The last stressed syllable

A Catalan literature workshop supplies two deliberately minimal original lines: “casa” and “camí”. The exercise asks where the Catalan metrical count stops, not whether either word constitutes a complete published poem. One learner imports a Spanish classroom rule and adds a syllable automatically to every final-stressed line. Another counts every written syllable even after the last stress. A third identifies the relevant accent before doing the metrical count. The teacher also reminds the class that a complete verse may contain vowel contacts and a caesura, which cannot be inferred from these isolated examples. No real author, title or prescribed-text attribution is given. A supported explanation should separate ordinary word syllabification from the Catalan metrical endpoint and avoid announcing a whole poem’s metre from one word alone.