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Definition of Caesura

1. Noun. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation). "After an ominous caesura the preacher continued"

2. Noun. A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line.

Definition of Caesura

1. Noun. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art. ¹

2. Noun. In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Caesura

1. a pause in a line of verse [n -RAS or -RAE] : CAESURAL, CAESURIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caesura

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caesiums caespitose caesti caestus caestuses caesura (current term) caesurae caesural caesuras caesuric

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Literary usage of Caesura

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1901)
"THE QUASI-caesura IN VERGIL. THE importance to the rhythm of the hexameter of a caesura in the third foot is generally recognized Some confine the ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"But we have also a number of lines in which neither caesura nor quasi-caesura seems to occur. The object of this paper is to shew that these lines are not ..."

3. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"337-) Spitzner " De versu Graecorum heroico," published in the same year as Hermann's " Elementa," corrected Hermann's view that the feminine caesura ..."

4. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"The ending of я word within a foot always produces a caesura. ... Here there is a caesura in every foot except the last, but only one of these that after ..."

5. Homer's Iliad: first three books and selections by Homer (1907)
"The caesura gives liveliness and buoyancy to the verse, because the second ... The caesura usually falls in the third foot, either after the first short ..."

6. Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus by George Lyman Kittredge (1891)
"When one of these syllables stands before a caesura which is followed by an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel or weak h, it is of course easy to ..."

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