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A caesura is a slight pause that's important in poetry, because for example alexandrines require a caesura in the middle. But the question is where can we put them. I know that we tend to put the...
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System
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2019-12-08T11:56:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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blackbird
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2019-12-08T11:56:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
A caesura is a slight pause that's important in poetry, because for example alexandrines require a caesura in the middle. But the question is where can we put them. I know that we tend to put them in places where there's a punctuation mark like a comma, but there are also authors who put them almost anywhere. Such seem to be the case with this verse: > Ye sacred Bards, that to ¦ your harps' melodious strings The caesura is placed between _to_ and _your_, which breaks the natural flow of the verse. So I was wondering if I could place a caesura basically anywhere as long as it's not in the middle of a word.
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System
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2019-05-20T21:09:09Z (over 5 years ago)
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