cesura
Americannoun
plural
cesuras, cesuraenoun
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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
The medial cesura is the typical pause of this kind, dividing the verse into two parts of approximately equal length.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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 Gosse, Edmund
Not only the unaccentual character of the French verse is opposed to the theory of the French source, but also, he believes, the fixed cesura.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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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