caesura
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This creates a medial caesura, splitting the line into two more or less equal halves, a technique famously employed a thousand years ago by the unknown poet who set “Beowulf” to the page.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021
If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2020
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
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
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