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ce·su·ra

 (sĭ-zho͝or′ə, -zo͝or′ə)
n.
Variant of caesura.
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cesura

(sɪˈzjʊərə)
n, pl -ras or -rae (-riː)
(Poetry) prosody a variant spelling of caesura
ceˈsural adj
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cae•su•ra

or ce•su•ra

(sɪˈʒʊər ə, -ˈzʊər ə, sɪzˈyʊər ə)

n., pl. cae•su•ras or ce•su•ras, cae•su•rae or ce•su•rae (sɪˈʒʊər i, -ˈzʊər i, sɪzˈyʊər i)
1. a break or pause in a line of verse, marked in scansion by a double vertical line.
2. any pause or interruption.
[1550–60; < Latin]
cae•su′ral, cae•su′ric, adj.
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The process of developing it into the representative pseudo-classical measure of Dryden and Pope consisted in making the lines, or at least the couplets, generally end-stopt, and in securing a general regular movement, mainly by eliminating pronounced pauses within the line, except for the frequent organic cesura in the middle.
Ahi observamos, en primer lugar, una caracteristica en cuanto a la puntuacion: la abundancia de puntos seguidos genera un ritmo detenido, de celulas pequenas, de constantes cesuras que tiene relacion con la musica del minimalismo, en la que pequenas celulas ritmicas se repiten.
En un contraste verdaderamente significativo, el trabajo de tipo cientifico se desborda en lo espiritual, a pesar de las cesuras que todavia puedan presentarse.
Cortes, cesuras, interrupciones y sincopas que hacen de la lectura misma una vivencia de la herida, un transito de esa herida cifrada a la lectura herida que cifra en cada rotura, en cada pliegue o intersticio que se abre al blanco de la pagina, la presencia diferida, desplazada, la huella del otro.
By using antique meters or newly composed verse forms, Klopstock's odes are characterized by sequences of stressed and unstressed syllables with changing line lengths and internal cesuras.