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noun
caesura  n.  (pl. E. caesuras, L. caesurae)  
1.
A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. Note: In the following line the caesura is between study and of. "The prop | er stud | y of | mankind | is man."
2.
A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after an ominous caesura the preacher continued.





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"Caesura" Quotes from Famous Books



... their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness. There is now an end of mystery and fear. Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, {8} or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible caesura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... unmarked rhythm of the intellectual argumentative passage which follows: till emotion begins again to overwhelm reflection, and shows itself in the strong alliteration of "light," "land," "light," "live," "life," "living," and in the strong caesura after "buried," the more marked for coming so ...
— Milton • John Bailey


Words linked to "Caesura" :   pause, caesural, interruption, intermission, prosody, suspension, inflection, break


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