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

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

Even the caesura, or pause in the course of a long line, is not always easy to place.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

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

Such is not the Latin where the vowels and consonants are mixed in proportion to each other; yet Virgil judged the vowels to have somewhat of an over-balance, and therefore tempers their sweetness with caesuras.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden