caesural

Often there are pauses within a bar, just as literary poets often include caesural breaks within their lines.

Adam Bradley: 'It Was All A Dream' Adam Bradley 2010

Often there are pauses within a bar, just as literary poets often include caesural breaks within their lines.

Adam Bradley: 'It Was All A Dream' Adam Bradley 2010

The rhythm and the grouping appear to be at variance; but the difficulty is easily overcome by making the caesural pause shorter than the pause after "heather" which introduces the group, and at the same time, by not allowing the voice to fall on the word "spot."

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

In the second line, the caesural pause occurs after "spot," but the phrase "from the spot where he had dropped and died" expresses one idea and must be given as a whole.

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

This applies especially to poetry, which demands, in order to preserve the rhythm, that the caesural pause should not be slighted, and that there should be a more or less marked pause at the end of each line:

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

“Il faut que votre mère | | se reposer, ” he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence.

VII. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

The MS. marks the caesural place in ten of the lines: in line 2, between Both and these.l. 3, at the full stop.l. 6, fancies, feigns, deems, take three stresses.l. 11, after man.

Notes 1918

Moreover, there is no way of enunciating this line which will avoid the confusion; because if, knowing that sally should not have the same intonation as squander, the reader mitigates the accent, and in doing so lessens or obliterates the caesural pause which exposes its accent, then ranks becomes a genitive and sally a substantive.

Editor’s Preface to Notes 1918

There is no comma at barebill in any MS., but a gap and sort of caesural mark in A.

Notes 1918

In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows:

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914