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masculine caesura
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noun Prosody.
a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.
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How to use masculine caesura in a sentence
Gower uses almost exclusively the masculine caesura after the second foot and the lyric caesura in the third foot.
A History of English Versification|Jakob SchipperMore often this Septenary metre occurs in short lines (and therefore with fixed masculine caesura).
A History of English Versification|Jakob Schipper