caesurae in English

noun
1
(in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.
The Greek caesura was always much more flexible than Horace's, and English tends to treat it as entirely movable.

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1. The example has two Caesurae; the clearest one comes after be and before that.

2. Medial Caesurae (plural of Caesura) can be found throughout contemporary poet Derek Walcott’s “The Bounty.”

3. Caesura (plural Caesuras or Caesurae) A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art

4. / sɪˈzjʊə.rə / plural Caesuras or Caesurae us / səˈzʊr.aɪ / uk / sɪˈzjʊə.raɪ / a pause in a line of poetry, especially near the middle of a line Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

5. Bear in mind that Caesura is really a feature of how poems are read, not how they’re written.That’s why this article includes the mark to show Caesurae

6. / səˈzʊr.ə / plural Caesuras or Caesurae uk / sɪˈzjʊə.raɪ / us / səˈzʊr.aɪ / a pause in a line of poetry, especially near the middle of a line SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

7. In Latin and Greek classical poetry, a Caesura (plural Caesurae) is the space between two words contained within a metrical foot. In modern poetry, the definition of “Caesura” is the natural end to a poetic phrase, especially when the phrase ends in the middle of a line of poetry.