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caesura /sɪˈzjʊərə /noun1(In Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.The Greek caesura was always much more flexible than Horaces, and English tends to treat it as entirely movable....- Do you think there was anything similar to the Classical Latin caesura?
- He appears to be aping the Latin caesura without understanding its structural purpose.
1.1(In modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.He indicates some of the stresses in the manuscript sources of the poem and marks the caesura or pause in each line....- 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.
- All the words had been fully present and correctly pronounced; all the line-end pauses and caesuras had been properly respected.
Derivatives caesural adjective ...- In this, the repetition of ‘one man’ after the caesural pause becomes a sort of pleading, auditory hammer, asserting an individuality even as it knocks itself right out.
- Among other things, it mentions the caesural pause as a device for finishing an imperfect foot.
- Influenced by Italian verse, he sophisticated the stanza form, experimenting with caesural variation and applying the stanza to new subjects.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin, from caes- 'cut, hewn', from the verb caedere. Rhymes Angostura, Bonaventura, bravura, Bujumbura, camera obscura, coloratura, curer, Dürer, durra, Estremadura, figura, fioritura, Führer, insurer, Jura, juror, Madura, nomenklatura, procurer, sura, surah, tamboura, tempura, tourer |