Look up: Caesura

1. Caesura
   A break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g. in Hamlet's famous soliloquy:
   To be or not to be
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2. caesura
   [n] - a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) 2. [n] - a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
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3. caesura
   noun a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
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4. caesura
   noun a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); `after an ominous caesura the preacher continued`
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5. Caesura
   • (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
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6. caesura
   in modern prosody, a pause within a poetic line that breaks the regularity of the metrical pattern. It is represented in scansion by the sign {double ... [3 related articles]
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7. Caesura
   In Latin verse a caesura is the separation of the last syllable of any word from those which precede it, by making it part of the following foot. In English poetry it is equivalent to a pause.
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8. caesura
   a stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. When a caesura splits the line in equal parts, it is termed medial. When the pause occurs towards the beginning or end of the line, it is termed, respectively, initial and terminal.
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9. caesura
   A pause in a line of a poem
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10. caesura
    
    • a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
    • a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
    
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11. caesura
    In poetry, a natural pause in a line of verse
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12. Caesura
    In meter, a `caesura` (alternative spellings are `cæsura` and `cesura`) is a complete stop in a line of poetry. The plural form of caesura is caesuras or caesurae. There are two types of caesurae: masculine and feminine. A masculine caesura is a pause that follows a stressed syllable; a fe...
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