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caesura::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | prosody, inflection |
| Derivation | caesural |
caesura::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | break, pause, suspension, interruption, intermission |
| Derivation | caesural |
after an ominous caesura the preacher continued.
Examples of caesura
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In Latin or Greek poetry, the caesura could be suppressed for effect in any line.
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Old English poetry is also commonly marked by the German caesura or pause.
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This line also has an inversion of the fourth foot, following the caesura.
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Those Old French lines invariably had a caesura after the fourth syllable.
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The basic form is accentual verse, with four stresses per line, separated by a caesura.
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In Latin and Greek poetry, a caesura is a break within a foot caused by the end of a word.
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The caesura was even more important to Old Englishverse than it was to Latin or Greek poetry.
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Initially, the accumulation of decades exists only as a long caesura.
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A caesura is also described by its position in a line of poetry.
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- A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued"
- A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
- A caesura (/siu02D0u02C8u0292ju028Au0259ru0259/ or /su026Au02C8u0292u028Aru0259/, pl. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cu00E6sura and cesura, is a complete pause in a verse or musical composition.
- Caesura is Keith Kenniff's fourth studio album under his Helios moniker.
- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art; In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot
- A sudden silencing of the sound; a pause or break, indicated by the following symbol: //
- A pause within a line of poetry which may or may not affect the metrical count (see #62. meter). In scansion, a caesura is usually indicated by the following symbol (//). ...
- A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. When a caesura splits the line in equal parts, it is termed medial. ...
- A significant pause within a line, often indicated with punctuation:
