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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 Bierce, Ambrose

There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line, which is called the caesura or caesural pause.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

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 Taylor, Bayard

The MS. marks the caesural place in ten of the lines in line 2, between Both and these. l 3, at the full stop. l.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

REMARK.—The caesural pause should never be so placed as to injure the sense.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes