caesura

How To Use caesura In A Sentence

• As in life so in poetry, there's need for space, caesura the moment that brings forth brief befogged epiphanies.
• The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines.
• A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
• 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. Museum Quality
• after an ominous caesura the preacher continued
• He indicates some of the stresses in the manuscript sources of the poem and marks the caesura or pause in each line.
• They are like caesurae in poetry, permitting a mental or physical breath before the speaker goes on. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2
• He appears to be aping the Latin caesura without understanding its structural purpose.
• All the words had been fully present and correctly pronounced; all the line-end pauses and caesuras had been properly respected.
• After a brisk run-through of key terms - they include scansion, rhyme, caesura, verse - he proceeds to a series of Shakespearean speeches for analysis, which form the main section here.