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Caesura
Pause or break in poetry or music / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Helios album, see Caesura (album).
Not to be confused with seizure.
A caesura (/siˈzjʊərə/, pl. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. It may be expressed by a comma (,), a tick (✓), or two lines, either slashed (//) or upright (||). In time value, this break may vary between the slightest perception of silence all the way up to a full pause.[1]
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See also: alliterative verse