How To Use Caesura In A Sentence
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As in life so in poetry, there's need for space, caesura the moment that brings forth brief befogged epiphanies.
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The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines.
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A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
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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.
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after an ominous caesura the preacher continued
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He indicates some of the stresses in the manuscript sources of the poem and marks the caesura or pause in each line.
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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
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He appears to be aping the Latin caesura without understanding its structural purpose.
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All the words had been fully present and correctly pronounced; all the line-end pauses and caesuras had been properly respected.
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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.
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_hypermetric_; and that we must be very watchful about pauses, particularly about a somewhat mysterious chief pause, liable to occur about the middle of a line, called a _caesura_.
A Study of Poetry
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Their versification is traditional, though impudent rhymes and elusive caesuras shocked diehards.
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This stanza is typical of his middle free verse style; a varying caesura keeps the music graceful but slightly off-balance.
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From a long-term point of view, therefore, the tumultuous changes in Italian religion at the end of the early modern period mark not the dawn of a new era but merely a caesura.
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In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows:
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
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In this it contrasts with the accentual four-stress line of Old English and Middle English alliterative verse, in which the caesura is expected to fall in the middle of the line.
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He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture.
Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
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Do you think there was anything similar to the Classical Latin caesura?
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The caesura forced by an oddly extraneous comma divides the line into question and condition and calls attention to the metaphysical question of how one's position affects one's knowledge.
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Their versification is traditional, though impudent rhymes and elusive caesuras shocked diehards.
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Also: a great moment to point out alliteration, caesurae and the like.
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(It also lands him with a possibly life threatening case of the hiccups, which accounts for the caesurae in the following quote):
Andrew Gorin: Paper Tigers with Real Fangs: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City
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Elsewhere, especially in some loans, c is soft before ae, oe in Latin caesura and Greek coelacanth, soft in French façade (often written without the cedilla, as facade), and generally hard in Celt/Celtic.
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Yet the diffusive linked progress of Victorian perfectibility seems instinct there nonetheless, grammatically as well as rhythmically, overriding the caesura and all the other shocks and setbacks of progression, not only in the emphatic glottal ligature of "growing good" but in the double semantic bond of the words.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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One day I learned in school about an alexandrine--and even today I still remember that an alexandrine was a type of poem some oldtimer wrote honoring Alexander the Great--and how an alexandrine fit a certain pattern based on syllabic time counted by iambs and I'll be damned if I learned where the caesuras go.
Poetic Justice
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Was it the Greek verse, containing one senarius with a long syllable before the caesura in the fifth foot, as Herbert pointed out to his brother on the very evening when that hideous oversight -- say rather crime -- had been openly perpetrated in plain black and white on a virgin sheet of innocent paper?
Philistia
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IN THE OCCUPIED CITY, was it when you fell in love with arbitrary CApitaL LettERS, it alics, caesurae | | and repetitions repetiTIOns?
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The Greek caesura was always much more flexible than Horaces, and English tends to treat it as entirely movable.
