Caesura

Word CAESURA
Character 7
Hyphenation cae su ra
Pronunciations /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/

Definitions and meanings of "Caesura"

What do we mean by caesura?

A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics. noun

A pause or interruption, as in conversation. noun

In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division. noun

A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody. noun

Etc. See cesura, cesural, etc. noun

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. noun

A pause or interruption (as in a conversation). noun

A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art. noun

In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot. noun

A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line noun

A pause or interruption (as in a conversation) noun

A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.

A caesura is a climatic pause during a play added to bring suspense just before something important happens Urban Dictionary

Small,orange and tangerine like, it is the world famous caesura Urban Dictionary

Cut up your words with pauses in order to establish a pattern or rhythm in your poetic delivery of the story. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Caesura

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The word "caesura" in example sentences

Among occasional variations of the normal strophe as here described may be mentioned the following: The end-rhyme is in a few instances feminine instead of masculine; while on the other hand the ending of the first half-lines is occasionally masculine instead of feminine, that is, the caesura is not "ringing." ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)

Well, there seems to be an intergalactic-sized caesura. ❋ Elizabeth Boleman-Herring (2011)

"Labor Day," from The Triumph of Achilles, is occasion only to remember her father's death a year ago, which the poet processes conclusively with this profound insight about the length of a human life: "Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura." ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

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. ❋ Jen Renzi (2011)

There is no necessary caesura, but a condition of its being a true Alexandrine is that the thirteenth syllable be stressed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Flavian dynasty marks a caesura in the history of Roman first ladies. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

French verse is measured in syllables: an Alexandrine has 12 syllables, with a caesura after the sixth in a classical poem. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is the transcendental event that starts it all; it is the caesura that defines her heroes and heroines' lives, the way they conceive of their task in this world and their failure to live. ❋ Carlo Strenger (2010)

And a feeble attempt, given the ongoing lack of an irony font, or a signal for a non-grammatical caesura, or an indicator for unusually quiet or calm speech the way we can signal loud and excited speech! ❋ Unknown (2008)

There's a sense of arrival in line seven, but only a moment's hesitation, enacted by the caesura, the full-stop, after "up to the ridge". ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is the transcendental event that starts it all; it is the caesura that defines her heroes and heroines 'lives, the way they conceive of their task in this world and their failure to live. ❋ Carlo Strenger (2010)

"O" of sheer pre-apostrophic exclamation (at the core of "Lo!" before it) appears to suggest that pure audition might — across the caesura, the epistemological gap itself — become cognition as smoothly as the phonetic ligature at "listen: O" releases the verbal alter ego of "(k) n-ow." ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

the caesura was [way too] [long] ❋ Sofo (2004)

[Oliver] [loves] [caesura] ❋ Samurai2023 (2023)

[Please] use caesura to make the [poetry] [stand out]. ❋ YetiJetN (2021)

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