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\sih-ZYUR-uh\
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1 : a break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse
2 : break, interruption
3 : a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody
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• "The Anglo-Saxon idiom of Beowulf sounds particularly alien to modern ears: four stresses per line, separated in the middle by a strong pause, or caesura, with the third stress in each line alliterating with one or both of the first two." - Paul Gray, Time, 20 Mar. 2000
• "Whenever anyone asks what I studied in school, the caesura of a deep breath inserts itself before the next line-the time it takes to summon the strength it takes to summon the word: 'poetry.'" - Michael Andor Brodeur, The Boston Globe, 14 June 2016
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