cesura
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cesuras,
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cesurae
plural
noun
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The "epic" cesura is quite as characteristic of dramatic blank verse as of epic.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
It will be noticed that in the specimens just quoted from the Latin there is rime not only between the ends of the verses but between the syllables just preceding the cesura.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Spenser: Amoretti, 293*; Faerie Queene, 102*; free cesura in, 17; interest in classical metres, 332 f.;
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
It is an element of the same character, then, as the cesura, though not bearing the same name.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
One is not likely to recommend elementary students to count trochees and cesuras in order to increase their appreciation of good verse.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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