cesura
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The cesura is counted as "medial" when occurring after the fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable; elsewhere it is regarded as "variant."
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.; influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190; perfect rime in, 121 n.; regular cesura in, 17, 18; influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f.,
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
Mätzner prints this poem in short lines of four and three stresses, the cesura making such a division natural enough.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
The French alexandrine has almost always been characterized by a regular and strongly marked medial cesura, and this very commonly appears in the English form, but by no means universally.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
In the early Elizabethan period the impression was still general that there should be a regular medial cesura.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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