cesura
Americannoun
plural
cesuras, cesuraenoun
Other Word Forms
- cesural adjective
Example Sentences
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For Gascoigne's practice in printing his verse with medial cesura, even without regard to rhetorical divisions, see the specimen given below.
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
It is also distinguished from the early French and Middle English forms by the fact that the cesura and the ending are commonly masculine.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
A cesura is a pause determined by the sense.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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