Often there are pauses within a bar, just as literary poets often include caesural breaks within their lines. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bradley: 'It Was All A Dream'] Reference
In the second line, the caesural pause occurs after "spot," but the phrase "from the spot where he had dropped and died" expresses one idea and must be given as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
This applies especially to poetry, which demands, in order to preserve the rhythm, that the caesural pause should not be slighted, and that there should be a more or less marked pause at the end of each line. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
The rhythm and the grouping appear to be at variance; but the difficulty is easily overcome by making the caesural pause shorter than the pause after "heather" which introduces the group, and at the same time, by not allowing the voice to fall on the word "spot.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
There is no comma at barebill in any MS., but a gap and sort of caesural mark in A. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
"Il faut que votre mère -- se reposer," he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence. From Wordnik.com. [One of Ours] Reference
Il faut que votre mère | | se reposer, he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence. From Wordnik.com. [VII. Book Five: Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On] Reference
In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference
The MS. marks the caesural place in ten of the lines: in line 2, between Both and these.l. 3, at the full stop.l. 6, fancies, feigns, deems, take three stresses.l. 11, after man. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
The flow of Goethe's verse is sometimes so similar to that of the corresponding English metre, that not only its harmonies and caesural pauses, but even its punctuation, may be easily retained. From Wordnik.com. [Faust] Reference
Moreover, there is no way of enunciating this line which will avoid the confusion; because if, knowing that sally should not have the same intonation as squander, the reader mitigates the accent, and in doing so lessens or obliterates the caesural pause which exposes its accent, then ranks becomes a genitive and sally a substantive. From Wordnik.com. [Editors Preface to Notes] Reference
MS. has no caesural mark. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
Rhymes, by repetition of the same suffix, are in Pss. ii, xiii, xxvii, xxx, liv, lv, cxlii, etc. (ii, xii, xxvi, xxix, liii, liv, cxli, etc.); these rhymes occur at the ends of lines and in caesural pauses. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
A stranger, who looked in for a few minutes upon one of Mr. Choate's jury-arguments, and saw a lawyer with a lithe and elastic figure of about five feet and eleven inches, with a face not merely of a scholarly paleness, but wrinkled all over, and, as it were, scathed with thought and with past nervous and intellectual struggles, yet still beautiful, with black hair curling as if from heat and dewy from heightened action and intensity of thought and feeling, and heard a clear, sympathetic, and varying voice uttering rapidly and unhesitatingly, sometimes with sweet caesural and almost monotonous cadences, and again with startling and electric shocks, language now exquisitely delicate and poetic, now vehement in its direct force, and again decorated and wild with Eastern extravagance and fervor of fancy, would have thought him the last man to have been born on New England soil, or to convince the judgments of twelve Yankee jurors. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
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