caesura
noun
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.
caesural
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a word derived from
caesura.
Example Sentences
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There is no comma at barebill in any MS., but a gap and sort of caesural mark in A. In a letter Aug.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
The flow of Goethe's verse is sometimes so similar to that of the corresponding English metre, that not only its harmonies and caesural pauses, but even its punctuation, may be easily retained.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
"Il faut que votre mère—se reposer," he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence.
From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather
May I say that it is a little sing-songy—the lines monotonously alike in their caesural pauses and some of their other features?
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
REMARK.—The caesural pause should never be so placed as to injure the sense.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
