- 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...
- ⟨||⟩ or ⟨‖⟩ is the
standard caesura mark in
English literary criticism and analysis. It
marks the
strong break or
caesura common to many
forms of poetry...
- verse, is also
commonly marked by the
caesura or pause. In
addition to
setting pace for the line, the
caesura also
grouped each line into two hemistichs...
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Eisenstein often included caesuras –
rhythmical breaks – in his films. The acts of The
Battleship Potemkin (1925) are
separated by
caesuras that
provide a rhythmical...
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poems in the
Mirror for Magistrates, used a
similar line but with few
caesuras. The
result was
essentially the
normal iambic pentameter except for the...
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there must be a
caesura in each line, and such
caesuras almost always occur in the 3rd or 4th foot.
There are two
kinds of
caesura:
strong (or masculine)...
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Bacchae 1) 'I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans' A
caesura (break
between words) is
usually found after the
fifth or
seventh element...
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example shows),
whenever a
feminine caesura is used in the 3rd foot, it is
usually accompanied by
masculine caesuras in the 2nd and 4th feet also: infan/dum...
- used in
guitar tablature or
chord charts to
indicate tacets, rests, or
caesuras in the accompaniment. The
earliest known usage of the term is 1724. A unique...
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syllabic poetic metre of (nominally and typically) 12
syllables with a
medial caesura dividing the line into two
hemistichs (half-lines) of six
syllables each...
