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
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
We may now sum it up thus—trochaic verse of eight syllables, with alliteration and rhyme, a caesura in the same part of every line, and every line reiterated in parallelism.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.