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Definition of Cesuras
1. cesura [n] - See also: cesura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cesuras
Literary usage of Cesuras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godfrey Weber's General Music Teacher: Adapted to Self-instruction, Both for by Gottfried Weber (1841)
"The first, second, and third cesuras in fig. 21. on page 93, are feminine, the
fourth is masculine. These appellations are borrowed from poetic metries. ..."
2. Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action by Johann Jackob Engel, Henry Siddons (1822)
"... and then permit the poet to dispose of his cesuras ad libitum; to mix the
Iambics with what kind of feet he wishes, even not to heed a few extraordinary ..."
3. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"Any of these cesuras may be called medial, and the purely rhythmical tendency
... The following verses, showing cesuras varying from the middle of the first ..."
4. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification by Frank M. Chambers (1985)
"This treatment of the Latin cesuras is akin to the treatment ... It will be noted,
however, that the cesuras in these same verses do not all have the same ..."
5. An Introduction to Old Provencal Versification by Frank M. CHAMBERS (1985)
"This treatment of the Latin cesuras is akin to the treatment of rime in ...
It will be noted, however, that the cesuras in these same verses do not all have ..."
6. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"By the side of the masculine cesura Old French and Middle French made use of two
other kinds of cesuras, both feminine cesuras. III. ..."
7. Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists: With Conjectural Emendations of the Text by Karl Elze (1884)
"'I have thought it desirable, he says, to print the Alexandrines [in The Winter's
Tale] in extenso with the cesuras marked. I have, in this instance, ..."
8. A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise by William Henry Cobb (1905)
"5 has two cesuras and extends to nine feet. All the other verses in both ...
In the last verse of 67, we have the pleasing variation with two cesuras, ..."
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