Associations to the word «Caesura»

Wiktionary

CAESURA, noun. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.
CAESURA, noun. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

Dictionary definition

CAESURA, noun. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued".
CAESURA, noun. A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope