end-stopped

American

[end-stopt] / ˈɛndˌstɒpt /

adjective

Prosody.

(of a line of verse) ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.

end-stopped British

adjective

(of verse) having a pause at the end of each line

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Etymology

Origin of end-stopped

First recorded in 1875–80

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Part 2 Literary Terms (Unit 6)

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A photograph of a destitute man in Spitalfields, in the East End, stopped me cold: it was taken in 1969.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2012

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