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Caesura

noun
(pl. E. caesuras, L. caesurae)
1.
A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
2.
A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line.



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"Caesura" Quotes from Famous Books



... or verse, falls into two halves, and a well-marked caesura divides each line, or verse, into two equally accented parts. And the half-lines can be further resolved into two halves, each containing a single accented word or phrase. This is proved by tablet Spartali ii, 265A, where the scribe writes his ...
— The Babylonian Legends of the Creation • British Museum


Words linked to "Caesura" :   prosody, caesural, break, interruption, suspension, intermission, inflection, pause


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