caesura

For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2019

That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019

It’s an incredibly active act of reading: you must craft some portion of the narrative yourself, filling in the caesura.

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2017

Varied cadences and varied caesura are essential to this form of verse, otherwise the monotony is wearying to the ear.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010

What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

In his use of caesuras Vergil in the Ciris resembles Catullus: both to a certain extent distrust the trochaic pause.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank