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adj. - (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line.

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  • His blank verse, too, is comparatively clumsy -- padded with unnecessary words and the lines largely end-stopped.
  • The quatrains are set apart from one another by the rhyme scheme and by heavily end-stopped punctuation at the conclusion of each.
  • The verse is unrimed, not arranged in stanzas, and with lines more commonly end-stopped (with distinct pauses at the ends) than is true in good modern poetry.
  • The lines in this passage are generally end-stopped, that is, with a marked pause at the end of each, and the individual lines are not interrupted in the middle by pauses.
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