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caesura
noun
(cae-su-ra)
a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse
caesura
noun
(cae-su-ra)
a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot
caesura
noun
(cae-su-ra)
break, interruption
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