About The Word Caesura
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Caesura
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What's The Definition Of Caesura?
[n] a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
[n] a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued" Synonyms | Synonyms for Caesura: Related Terms | Find terms related to Caesura: abeyance | accent | accentuation | Alexandrine | amphibrach | amphimacer | anacrusis | anapest | antispast | arsis | bacchius | beat | boundary | breach | break | cadence | catalexis | cease-fire | cessation | chloriamb | chloriambus | clearance | colon | comma | counterpoint | cretic | dactyl | dactylic hexameter | day off | diaeresis | dimeter | dipody | discontinuity | distance between | dochmiac | double space | drop | elegiac | elegiac couplet | elegiac pentameter | em space | emphasis | en space | epitrite | feminine caesura | fissure | foot | freeboard | gap | hair space | half space | heptameter | heptapody | heroic couplet | hesitation | hexameter | hexapody | hiatus | holiday | iamb | iambic | iambic pentameter | ictus | interim | interlude | intermediate space | intermezzo | intermission | intermittence | interruption | interspace | interstice | interval | ionic | jingle | jump | juncture | lacuna | lapse | layoff | leap | leeway | letup | lilt | lull | margin | masculine caesura | measure | meter | metrical accent | metrical foot | metrical group | metrical unit | metron | molossus | mora | movement | numbers | paeon | pause | pentameter | pentapody | period | point | proceleusmatic | pyrrhic | quantity | recess | remission | respite | rest | rhythm | room | semicolon | single space | space | space between | spondee | sprung rhythm | stand-down | stay | stop | stress | suspension | swing | syzygy | tetrameter | tetrapody | tetraseme | thesis | time interval | tribrach | trimeter | tripody | triseme | trochee | truce | vacation See Also | break | inflection | intermission | interruption | pause | prosody | suspension Caesura In Webster's Dictionary \C[ae]*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {C[ae]suras}, L.
{C[ae]sur[ae]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop,
fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.]
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
c[ae]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
Note: In the following line the c[ae]sura is between study
and of.
The prop | er stud | y || of | mankind | is man.
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