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caesura: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Prosody

A pause within a verse line where meaning and phrasing break the meter

In prosody, a caesura is a pause or break within a line of verse, usually falling near the middle, where the meaning and the natural phrasing of speech interrupt the metrical flow, as marked in the balanced halves of Old English and classical lines. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics treats it as a structural division internal to the line, distinct from the pause at the line's end. The referent is a rhythmic break that segments a metrical unit from within; the Latin root means a cutting.[1]

Unit
The position and strength of a pause internal to a verse line
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Located by where syntactic and phrasal boundaries interrupt the metrical pattern within the line

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References

  1. Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916

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