- A
caesura (/sɪˈzjʊərə/, pl.
caesuras or
caesurae;
Latin for "cutting"), also
written cæsura and cesura, is a
metrical pause or
break in a
verse where one...
- or even 14 syllables;
lines with obligatory, predominant, and
optional caesurae.
Although alexandrines occurred in
French verse as
early as the 12th century...
- a
caesura may be indicated. In the
great majority of
verse in
English caesurae are not part of the
metrical pattern, and
generally it is
better not to...
-
equivalent paraphrase which mirrors the original's
syllabic counts,
varied caesurae, and line- and hemistich-final
stress profiles): Like
other early Italian-language...
- A good
example is from The Winter's Tale by
William Shakespeare; the
caesurae are
indicated by '/': It is for you we speak, / not for ourselves: You...
-
Joseph (2013).
State Violence and the
Execution of Law:
Biopolitical Caesurae of Torture,
Black Sites, Drones. Routledge. p. 278. ISBN 978-0415529747...
- the
verse does not
adhere to the
rules of
classical Old
English poetry.
Caesurae are
present in
every line, but the
lines are
broken in two (cf. Pearl)...
-
number of
syllables in each line,
their vowel length, and the
location of
caesurae.
Exactly how this
ancient form
sounded when sung is hard to know, as the...
-
Nonnus only
employs 9 variations,
avoids elision,
employs mostly weak
caesurae, and
follows a
variety of
euphonic and
syllabic rules regarding word placement...
- in the
Hessisches Staatsarchiv. He also
wrote a
treatise on verse, the
Caesurae uersuum, and a
collection of
twenty acrostic riddles, the Enigmata, influenced...
