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masculine caesura

noun

, Prosody.
  1. a caesura occurring immediately after a stressed or a long syllable.


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Example Sentences

Gower uses almost exclusively the masculine caesura after the second foot and the lyric caesura in the third foot.

More often this Septenary metre occurs in short lines (and therefore with fixed masculine caesura).

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