caesura
noun/siˈzjʊərə/
/siˈzjʊrə/
(specialist)- a break near the middle of a line of poetry compare enjambementTopics Literature and writingc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin, from caes- ‘cut’, from the verb caedere.
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