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    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...
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  • caesura. When the 3rd foot is a dactyl, the caesura can come after the second syllable of the 3rd foot; this is known as a weak or feminine caesura....
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    ⟨||⟩ or ⟨ǁ⟩ is the standard caesura mark in English literary criticism and analysis. It marks the strong break or caesura common to many forms of poetry...
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  • for roughly 40% of its verses. The Trishtubh pada contains a "break" or caesura, after either four or five syllables, necessarily at a word-boundary and...
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  • occurs in the middle of a line rather than at a line-break. This is a caesura (cut). A good example is from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare;...
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  • critically acclaimed[by whom?] album Eingya in 2006. His third album, Caesura, was released in 2008. Kenniff also records and performs music for solo...
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  • Catullus uses u – or – u as in lines 2 and 4 above. There is usually a caesura in the line after the 5th or 6th syllable. In the first part of his poetry...
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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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  • Xenomigia caesura is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in north-eastern Ecuador. The length of the forewings is 13–16.5 mm. Wikimedia Commons...
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    consists of two hemistichs (half-lines) of six syllables each, separated by a caesura (a metrical pause or word break, which may or may not be realized as a...
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  • has an inversion of the fourth foot, following the caesura (marked with "|"). In general a caesura acts in many ways like a line-end: inversions are common...
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    denoting a rhythmical pause and break in a line of verse. In poetry, the caesura is used to diversify rhythmical progress and thereby enrich accentual verse...
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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...
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  • Everyday English. p. 125. Cowan, Robert. "Shadow of a Doubt: A Phantom Caesura in Horace Odes 4.14." Classical Journal, The 109.4 (2014): 407–417. Dunn...
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    – u – – – | u u – | – u u – u – – –=long syllable; u=short syllable; |=caesura The lesser Sapphic, an 11-syllable line, with the structure: – u – x –...
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  • may be followed by one of seven, to one of four, and so on, often with caesura marked between them. Some of the solo arias pose bold challenges for singers:...
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    divided by a breath-pause or caesura. There must be at least one of the alliterating sounds on each side of the caesura. hreran mid hondum    hrimcealde...
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    a caesura, which cannot be in the middle of a word. The dainas traditionally are written down so that every line contains two dipodies. If a caesura is...
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  • In poetry, an ellipsis is used as a thought-pause or line break at the caesura or this is used to highlight sarcasm or make the reader think about the...
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    close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of...
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  • Carl Nielsen's violin concerto) cédez (Fr.) Yield, give way cesura or caesura (Lat.) Break, stop; (i.e. a complete break in sound) (sometimes nicknamed...
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    ×=unaccented syllable; (×)=optional; and |=caesura which he then further multiplied by allowing that sometimes the caesura could appear elsewhere (most commonly...
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    end of a cycle is marked by a॥, called a double ḍaṇḍā, and looks like a caesura. Carnatic music is usually performed by a small ensemble of musicians,...
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    three or four are preceded by word-end. This is known as Korsch's caesura or the caesura Korschiana, after its discoverer. Most—but not all—Saturnians can...
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  • 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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  • comma, and caesura mark. (The first sense was eventually lost to the low dot and the other two developed separately into the comma , and caesura mark ||)...
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  • notation Letter notation Scientific pitch notation Articulation Accent Caesura Damping Dynamics Fermata Fingering Legato Marcato Ornament Appoggiatura...
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    the verse's three phrases. A kireji fills a role analogous to that of a caesura in classical Western poetry or to a volta in sonnets.[better source needed]...
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    metrical feet, a caesura, and three metrical feet following the caesura. The fourth line adds an additional foot following the caesura, making it longer...
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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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