cesura

The process of developing it into the representative pseudo-classical measure of Dryden and Pope consisted in making the lines, or at least the couplets, generally end-stopt, and in securing a general regular movement, mainly by eliminating pronounced pauses within the line, except for the frequent organic cesura in the middle.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

The cesura is frequently not in evidence (cf. lines 14 and 22, both of which are also metrically incorrect); the lines are often deficient in length (p.  29, line 26; p.  31, line 19; p.  32, line 19).

The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919

The fact seems to be that the 9-syllable line is too long to be uttered comfortably in one phrase, or breath-group, and it is too short to be regularly divided into parts by cesura.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

Usually, in the long lines, the inner accent falls on the fourth syllable, with syllabic stress on the eighth, and with cesura after the fifth syllable.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

I mean a well chosen incision -- the cesura, and a lingering --

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

By internal licences -- the mobile cesura, new variations and combinations -- the power of the alexandrine was marvellously enlarged; it lost its monotony and became capable of every achievement; its external restraints were lightened; verse glided into verse as wave overtaking wave.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

What a sweet aspiration in each cesura of the verse! three love-sighs fixed and incorporate!

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

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In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable.]

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878