caesura
IPA: kˈeɪsˈʊrʌ
noun
- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
- (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
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Examples of "caesura" in Sentences
- There is a significant caesura in this section.
- Well, there seems to be an intergalactic-sized caesura.
- So it might be reasonable to call these changes a caesura.
- There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot.
- This line displays an obvious caesura in the medial position.
- Punctuation, however, is not necessary for a caesura to occur.
- Another distinction is by the position of the caesura in a line.
- There's no explanation for how the caesura serves the poetry itself.
- Also note the caesuras throughout and the bucolic dieraesis in line 1.
- This caesura is not guaranteed teleportation but has a low chance of succeeding.
- Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area.
- "Labor Day," from The Triumph of Achilles, is occasion only to remember her father's death a year ago, which the poet processes conclusively with this profound insight about the length of a human life: "Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura."
- Among occasional variations of the normal strophe as here described may be mentioned the following: The end-rhyme is in a few instances feminine instead of masculine; while on the other hand the ending of the first half-lines is occasionally masculine instead of feminine, that is, the caesura is not "ringing."