caesura

Example Sentences

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This creates a medial caesura, splitting the line into two more or less equal halves, a technique famously employed a thousand years ago by the unknown poet who set “Beowulf” to the page.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

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

Its pauses come with monotonous regularity at the end of the line, diversified only by an occasional break at the caesura in the third foot.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth