caesura

Example Sentences

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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

And had he smeared out with careless thumb All life, from its first birth in the waters To the ultimate dissolution of stars and suns, He had made no more than an ill-timed caesura.

From Mice & Other Poems by Bullett, Gerald