cesura

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).

Caesura (pronouced see-ZOO-ra) refers to a break or pause in the middle of a line of verse. It can be marked as || in the middle of the line, although generally it is not marked at all – it's simply part of the way the reader or singer pronounces the line.

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.

A caesura is a break in a conversation, a line of verse, or a song. Usually, a caesura means total silence, but not for long. A caesura is a pause, or an interruption.

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.

Caesura. A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle 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, ...

G.P. (General Pause) or L.P. (Long Pause) As indicated in the name, these are intended to be pauses of longer duration than any of the others. These marks are always shown over rests. They also interrupt the normal tempo of a composition.

end of the next (terminal caesura). There may be several caesuras within a single line or none at all. Thus, it has the effect of interposing the informal and irregular patterns of speech as a subtle counterpoint to the poem's regular rhythm; it prevents metrical monotony and emphasizes the…

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.