His blank verse, too, is comparatively clumsy -- padded with unnecessary words and the lines largely end-stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

The quatrains are set apart from one another by the rhyme scheme and by heavily end-stopped punctuation at the conclusion of each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Composing end-stopped lines so they can be interchanged in rhyme, meter and syntax, if that is your only goal, is not actually very difficult, though it is time-consuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick Review 08 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

He had received the couplet from Dryden, but he polished it to a greater finish, emphasizing, on the whole, its character as a single unit by making it more consistently end-stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

E.g.: How largely are the lines end-stopped (with a break in the sense at the end of each line, generally indicated by a mark of punctuation), how largely run-on (without such pause)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

The scraping noise of his awkward sledge echoed off 'the fronts of the leaning buildings; otherwise, there was no sound but the end-stopped thuds of his footfalls, and an occasional bluster of evening 108.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anywhen]

The variations of run-on lines (which, of course, carry with them the frequency of pauses within the line, and inversely the growing rarity of end-stopped lines) are closely parallel to those of the feminine endings; while the increase in the proportion of speeches ending within the line is still more striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Marlowe, virtually a beginner, could not be expected to carry blank verse to that perfection which his success made possible for Shakspere; he did not altogether escape monotony and commonplaceness; but he gained a high degree of flexibility and beauty by avoiding a regularly end-stopped arrangement, by taking pains to secure variety of pause and accent, and by giving his language poetic condensation and suggestiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

A line may be called 'end-stopped' when the sense, as well as the metre, would naturally make one pause at its close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference

Shakspere's blank verse, as he developed in command of his artistic resources, shows fewer "end-stopped" lines and more "run-on" lines, with an increasing proportion of light and weak endings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

The tendency is to adhere to the syllable-counting principle, to make the line the unit, the sentence and phrase coinciding with the line (end-stopped verse), and to use five perfect iambic feet to the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference

This quatrain stands out conspicuously, in the poem's versification, because the rest of the poem is composed of couplets, and L.E.L. introduces even more uniformity than that: most of the couplets resemble one another, musically, in that they are internally open but externally closed -- that is, the poem's couplets are typically end-stopped by strong punctuation but internally open, with only weak punctuation or none separating the first line from the second in most couplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.] Reference

The more important metrical tests include the following: the frequency of rhyme, whether in the heroic couplet or, as not uncommonly occurs in early plays, in alternates and even such elaborate arrangements as the sonnet; doggerel lines; alexandrines, or lines of twelve syllables; the presence of an extra syllable before a pause within the line; short lines, especially at the end of speeches; the substitution of other feet for the regular iambic movement of blank verse; weak and light endings; and, most valuable, the position of the pause in the line ( "end-stopped" or "run on"), and feminine endings or hypermetrical lines, such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

How regularly are the couplets end-stopped?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference