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Definition caesura in American English

caesura noun

noun
1

a pause within a poetic line that breaks the regularity of the metrical pattern; it is represented in scansion by the sign ‖

Example

The caesura sometimes is used to emphasize the formal metrical construction of a line, but it more often introduces the cadence of natural speech patterns and habits of phrasing into the metrical scheme.

Definition caesura in American English