caesura
Example Sentences
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Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.
From Slate • Dec. 3, 2019
That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 20, 2019
It’s an incredibly active act of reading: you must craft some portion of the narrative yourself, filling in the caesura.
From The Verge • Aug. 3, 2017
An exclamation mark after each address to Cynara creates a perfectly natural-seeming caesura.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2011
Each verse contains 21 syllables, with a caesura after the 12th.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.