caesura
| In poetry, a natural pause in a line of verse. |
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There is also a break or caesura which in five-syllable verses falls after the second syllable and in seven-syllable verses after the fourth. It was in some hundreds of verses, which I did my best to balance as Pope did, with a caesura falling in the middle of the line, and a neat antithesis at the end. |
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