caesura

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

Here’s a terrible piece of evidence showing that caesura in Twitter threads can be powerful.

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2017

Traditional Arabic poetry, he explained, was usually written in one of 16 meters, in balanced lines split by a caesura, and frequently employing a single end rhyme for an entire poem.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2010

And had he smeared out with careless thumb All life, from its first birth in the waters To the ultimate dissolution of stars and suns, He had made no more than an ill-timed caesura.

From Mice & Other Poems by Gerald Bullett

The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010

What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

In his use of caesuras Vergil in the Ciris resembles Catullus: both to a certain extent distrust the trochaic pause.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank