end-stopped

ADJECTIVE
  1. (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
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How To Use end-stopped In A Sentence

  • She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
  • Where the line is end-stopped by punctuation, the next line frequently begins with a conjunction, and the meaning flows on.
  • The end-stopped couplets of ‘Manufacturing’ dissect and examine visual experience, comparing its snapshot moments to the uneasy ongoingness of thought, hearing, and recollection.
  • Thus, the elastic sentence of the Dead Man poems offers plenty of variety even though every line is end-stopped.
  • Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
  • She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
  • Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
  • One obvious example of this is the difference between end-stopped lines and lines that exhibit weaker and stronger kinds of enjambment.
  • The more important metrical tests include the following: the frequency of rhyme, whether in the heroic couplet or, as not uncommonly occurs in early plays, in alternates and even such elaborate arrangements as the sonnet; doggerel lines; alexandrines, or lines of twelve syllables; the presence of an extra syllable before a pause within the line; short lines, especially at the end of speeches; the substitution of other feet for the regular iambic movement of blank verse; weak and light endings; and, most valuable, the position of the pause in the line ( "end-stopped" or "run on"), and feminine endings or hypermetrical lines, such as The Facts About Shakespeare
  • All eight lines of the poem are end-stopped, but the two that are not punctuated exploit the pauses.
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