caesural
- a word derived from caesura.
Example Sentences
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REMARK.—The caesural pause should never be so placed as to injure the sense.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
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
"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 Cather, Willa Sibert
The even caesural break so common to Alexandrines, and so often urged by critics as an objection against them, is here avoided with great ingenuity and good taste.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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
