cesura
noun
cesural
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a word derived from
cesura.
Example Sentences
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Some writers on prosody treat practically every line of ten syllables as having a cesural pause, and certainly some slight phrase-pause may almost always be found.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Small vessel propelled by oars or sails. benison Blessing; a benediction. cesural Pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
Cesura.+—Besides the pauses caused by rests or silences there is the cesural pause which needs to be considered in reading verse.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
A cesural pause between the third and fourth syllables is indicated by the figures 3/4 in the first column.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In this specimen—from a popular romance—we have the use of cesural rime as well as end-rime, just as in the Latin specimens cited above.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
