A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after an ominous caesura the preacher continued.
a break in the line of poetry for rhythmical effect.
a pause or interruption in a line of verse.
(OALD)pause near the middle of a line of poetry. the medial pause(s) in a line
(pl. caesurae) Lat. "cut." A division between words that occurs within a foot. Caesurae are of two kinds: strong and weak. There may be many caesurae in a line; but there will usually be only one principal caesura. Caesura is not to be confused with the diaeresis, which occurs between feet.
A caesura is a pause, normally signaled by a strong syntactic break, e. g., a phrase break, often underscored by punctuation such as a comma, semi-colon or a period. It usually occurs somewhere other than the end of the line, usually the middle.
a short pause within a line of poetry; often but not always signaled by punctuation. Note the two caesuras in this line from Poe's "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
a break in the middle of a line of verse that's dictated by a natural speech rhythm, and it comes from the Latin term "caesum," which means "to cut
a musical/poetical term denoting a pause, break or cut
a pause in the body of a line, often marked by punctuation
a pause or break in the line, usu
A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. There is a caesura right after the question mark in the first line of this sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
A significant pause, usually grammatical, within a line. In scansion a caesura is indicated by a double virgule (/ /).
a discernible pause, usually occurring about the middle of a line of poetry, sometimes used by poets for particular effects.
A sudden silencing of the sound; a pause or break, indicated by the following symbol
A break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g. in Hamlet's famous soliloquy: To be or not to be || that is the question A caesura can be classified as either feminine (following an unaccented syllable) or male (following an accented syllable).
A caesura (plural: caesurae) is an audible pause that breaks up a line of verse. Any sort of punctuation which causes a pause in speech, such as a comma, semicolon, full stop, or dash indicates a caesura.
