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  • noun Plural form of caesura.

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Examples

  • He lets the rhythm sing instead by end-stopping frequently, with many marked caesuras, in short, by judicious rushing and pausing he plays the harp of his common iambic pentameters. from → Poetry

    Goliath « Unknowing 2010

  • But they've also performed another role, offering themselves as places of temporary refuge; caesuras in the day in which my rhythm slows and my mind breathes out for a moment.

    My favourite independent bookshop: Booka, Oswestry 2011

  • You read by proactively looking for flaws: cliches, weak diction, randomness around those line breaks or caesuras, stultifying ego...and when you find those problems, you are glad as it means you can more rapidly go on to the next manuscript on stack -- this was my initial screening experience and those that passed muster on this round, I then tried to read from a more pleasurable point of view.

    BLECH: A POETRY CONTEST 2009

  • You read by proactively looking for flaws: cliches, weak diction, randomness around those line breaks or caesuras, stultifying ego...and when you find those problems, you are glad as it means you can more rapidly go on to the next manuscript on stack -- this was my initial screening experience and those that passed muster on this round, I then tried to read from a more pleasurable point of view.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • The colours in a painting, and the choice of words and the rhythm of sentences in a novel are all but traces, ellipses, elisions, and caesuras that suggest in the negative, just as much as the elements positively indicate the contours of a certain perspective onto the world.

    Existentialist Aesthetics Deranty, Jean-Philippe 2009

  • And others refer to the dynamics of sound and the performance of sounds – stanzas, caesuras, and the judicious use of punctuation.

    The Reading : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Dashes everywhere; caesuras where you least expect them, undeniable melodic control, polysyllabics eerily shifting to monosyllabics.

    'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson' 2008

  • Dashes everywhere; caesuras where you least expect them, undeniable melodic control, polysyllabics eerily shifting to monosyllabics.

    'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson' 2008

  • So that, in a way, Regan is physically manifesting what many poets aim for in sculpting poems with caesuras, or utilizing parataxis....and what the reader then "reads" could be more than what was *intended* by the poet or, per the sculpture, one could see/sense something in the distance between the two dogs that's no longer just the rope.

    SCULPTING PARATAXIS: A POETICS 2007

  • So that, in a way, Regan is physically manifesting what many poets aim for in sculpting poems with caesuras, or utilizing parataxis....and what the reader then "reads" could be more than what was *intended* by the poet or, per the sculpture, one could see/sense something in the distance between the two dogs that's no longer just the rope.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

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