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- Dictionarycae·su·ra/səˈZHo͝orə/
noun
- 1. (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.
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A caesura ( 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. Wikipedia