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Caesura Noun Break Pause Prosody—The Study Poetic Meter—And

Front Caesura (noun)
Back A break or pause.

In prosody—the study of poetic meter—and in musical composition, a caesura is a small pause in the middle of a line of verse or music.

Caesura is borrowed directly from the Latin noun caesura, which again, comes from the verb caedo, “to cut.”

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