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CaesuraA stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. A medial caesura splits the line in equal parts, as is common in Old English p [..]
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Caesuraa short pause within a line of poetry; often but not always signaled by punctuation. Note the two caesuras in this line from Poe’s "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, [..]
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CaesuraA pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a pause in the sense. The word derives from a Latin word meaning 'cut or slice', so the effect can be q [..]
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CaesuraSAY-SURE-A (F. césure) A break in the metrical structure of a line. Related to the pause but is usually indicated with a punctuation and is therefore slightly longer in duration. It is closer to a re [..]
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Caesura – a pause or stop in the middle of a verse
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CaesuraA break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g. in Hamlet's famous soliloquy: To be or not to be || that is the question A caesura can be classified as either feminine (following an unacc [..]
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CaesuraCaesura is a fancy word for a not-so-awkward pause that occurs in the middle of a line of verse in poetry. You can use this term if you want to sound smart, but we think "pause" is just fine [..]
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Caesura1550s, from Latin caesura, "metrical pause," literally "a cutting," from past participle stem of caedere "to cut down" (see -cide).
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CaesuraCaesura is a pause somewhere in the middle of a verse. Some lines have strong (easily recognizable) caesurae, which usually coincide with punctuation in the line, while others have weak ones. It' [..]
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CaesuraA strong pause within a line of verse. The following stanza from Hardy's "The Man He Killed" contains caesuras in the middle two lines:
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CaesuraA pause within a line of verse dictated by speech rhythm rather than meter.
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Caesura(n) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)(n) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
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CaesuraN F cutting (down/off)| felling (of trees); that which was cut off; pause in verse
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CaesuraA break in the music
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