cesura
Americannoun
plural
cesuras, cesuraenoun
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The cesura is to vary, but not from a fundamentally medial position.
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
Such a verse, then, as— "Fate snatch'd her early to the pitying sky" is counted as having "no cesura."
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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
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