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end-stopped line

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end-stopped line

In poetry, a line that ends with a natural pause in the sense or sentence structure. For example: ‘I love thee not, therefore pursue me not./Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?/The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.’ (Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream).


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