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caesura
[ si-zhoor-uh, -zoor-uh, siz-yoor-uh ]
noun
- Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- Classical Prosody. a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse.
- any break, pause, or interruption.
caesura
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noun
- (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line Usual symbol||
- (in classical prosody) a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the third or fourth foot of the line
Derived Forms
- ³¦²¹±ðˈ²õ³Ü°ù²¹±ô, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ³¦²¹±ð·²õ³Ü۲¹±ô ³¦²¹±ð·²õ³Ü۾±³¦ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of caesura1
Example Sentences
What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.
This creates a medial caesura, splitting the line into two more or less equal halves, a technique famously employed a thousand years ago by the unknown poet who set “Beowulf†to the page.
If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.
Among those of a more pessimistic bent, suspicions that somewhere deep in the bowels of Westminster a press release was being composed urging people not to read anything into this cupric caesura.
That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.
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