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adjective Prosody.
(of a line of verse) ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.
Origin:
1875–80
1875–80
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| end-stopped | |
| —adj | |
| (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line | |
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