feminine caesura

feminine caesura
a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.

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  • feminine caesura — noun : a caesura that follows an unstressed or short syllable see epic caesura, lyric caesura * * * Pros. a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable. * * * feminine caesura noun One which does not immediately follow the …   Useful english dictionary

  • caesura — caesural, caesuric, adj. /si zhoor euh, zoor euh, siz yoor euh/, n., pl. caesuras, caesurae /si zhoor ee, zoor ee, siz yoor ee/. 1. Pros. a break, esp. a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical …   Universalium

  • Caesura — For Helios album, see Caesura (album). An example of a caesura in modern western music notation. In meter, a caesura (alternative spellings are cæsura and cesura) is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition. The plural… …   Wikipedia

  • caesura — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease fire, cessation, chloriamb, chloriambus,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • caesura —   n. natural pause in verse line.    ♦ masculine caesura, one following stressed syllable of foot.    ♦ feminine caesura, one occurring in unstressed part of line.    ♦ caesural, a …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • epic caesura — noun : a feminine caesura following an extra unstressed syllable intruded into accentual iambic meter under cover of the caesural pause which is there longer than usual (as in Shakespeare s “but how of Cawdor? ‖The Thane of Cawdor lives”)… …   Useful english dictionary

  • lyric caesura — noun : a feminine caesura that follows an unstressed syllable required by the meter (as in Housman s “they cease not fighting ‖ east and west”) contrasted with epic caesura …   Useful english dictionary

  • Dactylic hexameter — (also known as heroic hexameter ) is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin, and was consequently considered to be the Grand… …   Wikipedia

  • accent — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, accent mark, accents, accentuate, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, articulation, bacchius, bar, beat, belabor, broad accent, brogue, burr, cadence, caesura,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • anapest — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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