caesura
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If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2020
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
For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2018
Other, slighter pauses fall quite variably where they will, and there is no regular breathing pause or caesura dividing the line after the second or third stress.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
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