Caesuras

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 * Caesuras**

__Definition__: (noun) A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.

__Example__: "//I waited for my Wulf with far-wandering yearnings, When it was rainy weather and I sat weeping.//" [[|Listen to audio]]

__Example__: A break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g. in Hamlet's famous soliloquy: To be or not to be || that is the question http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/hamlet/

//Definition source:// [|Dictionary.com] //Example source:// Kinsella, Kate, et al. __Prentice Hall Literature:The British Tradition__. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.