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noun • a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) • a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | ||||||||
| 28% | 8 | Describing a metrical pause within a line of verse | ||||||
adjective • of or relating to a caesura | ||||||||
| 24% | 11 | Metrical device in poetry that enables the sentence to continue without pause | ||||||
noun • the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | ||||||||
Metrical Pause Crossword Clue
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CAESURA which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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CAESURA
Updated: October 10, 2023
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| New York Times20 Feb 1987 | Down 26 | |
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