caesura

A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. A medial caesura splits the line in equal parts, as is common in Old English poetry (see Beowulf).

The feminine caesura is a pause that occurs after a non-stressed syllable in a line. For example, in the following passage from Shakespeare's 'Winter's Tale,' each caesura occurs after a non-stressed syllable: 'It is for you we speak, // not for ourselves: You are abused // and by some putter-on.

Break, pause, or interruption in the normal tempo of a composition. Typically indicated by "railroad tracks", i.e., two diagonal slashes.

1. Break or interruption in music, notated by two diagonal lines often refered to as railroad tracks. The break can be of any length at the discretion of the conductor.

The effect of a caesura often depends on the tone and content of the individual poem, but it often has the effect of creating contrast, or providing a pause to allow the reader to take in the information presented in the first part of the line.

break On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to caesura, such as: break, interval, pause, rest, and stop.

A CAESURA is a pause, normally signaled by a strong syntactic break underscored by punctuation such as a comma, semi-colon, colon or a period that occurs somewhere other than the end of the line, most often in the middle, as in these lines from Milton's sonnet, "When I consider how my light is spent" (PIE 281).

From my experience, in "classical" music (as opposed to jazz etc), a tick would imply a breath but no change in meter; a comma would imply an actual audible gap, but no more than a small one; a caesura / break implies that the music actually halts, perhaps to change tempo (and depending on the expertise of the players, ...

Okay, I feel like Enjambment is such an underrated lyrical device. It can make a song just feel so wandering or even kind of dissociative. Enjambment is where a sentence continues from line to line, almost in a sort of offset way. A good example of this is Germs by Acetone: (https://youtu.be/VtH5ogDjrpw)

The word caesura, borrowed from Late Latin, is ultimately from Latin caedere meaning "to cut." Nearly as old as the 450-year-old poetry senses is the general meaning of "a break or interruption."

Caesuras are essentially nothing more than breaks in rhythm, thought, or syntax that occur anywhere between the beginning and end of a line. In other words, they're the same as an end-stopped line except that the “end-stopping” occurs in the middle of the line. That said, they can be trickier to spot.

fermata A fermata (Italian: [ferˈmaːta]; "from fermare, to stay, or stop"; also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be prolonged beyond the normal duration its note value would ...