end-stopped
[ end-stopt ]
/ ˈɛndˌstɒpt /
adjective Prosody.
(of a line of verse) ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.
Words nearby end-stopped
end-consumer, end-diastolic volume, end-feet, end-of-file, end-position nystagmus, end-stopped, end-systolic volume, end-tidal, end., endamage, endameba
Origin of end-stopped
First recorded in 1875–80
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Examples from the Web for end-stopped
Here we have blank verse, distinctively Fletcherian with its feminine endings and its end-stopped lines.
Francis Beaumont: Dramatist|Charles Mills GayleyAn end-stopped line has a pause at the end, usually indicated by some mark of punctuation.
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|Edmund SpenserThe rhythm of the meter is also varied by the alternating of end-stopped and run-on lines, as in the last quotation.
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|Edmund SpenserObviously one may find such clear phrase-pauses, without punctuation, as will justify the caption "end-stopped."
English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
British Dictionary definitions for end-stopped
end-stopped
adjective
(of verse) having a pause at the end of each line
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