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.
caesuras
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pluralof caesura.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012
Such is not the Latin where the vowels and consonants are mixed in proportion to each other; yet Virgil judged the vowels to have somewhat of an over-balance, and therefore tempers their sweetness with caesuras.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
