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A-Z: General definitions: Caesura
Definition
A pause, often indicated in text by a comma or full stop, during a line of blank verse. After a caesura, the sense of the line may well run on without a pause at the end into the next line.
Unrhymed verse, in lines of ten syllables with an underlying stressed / unstressed rhythm.
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