喜樂美語
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    A caesura is a pause cut into the middle of a line of poetry — not the pause at the end of the line, but a break you feel inside it. Older verse often splits a line into two halves with a breath in between; later poets still use it whenever the rhythm stops a moment before going on. Editors sometimes mark it with ||. It is a literature-classroom word. People do stretch it, a little loosely, to any dramatic pause in speech or music, though actually that is borrowed from the verse sense rather than a separate everyday meaning. Usual stress is on the second syllable: si-ZYOOR-uh; you will also hear si-ZUR-uh.

    詩行中的停頓、頓挫

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組成Latin caesūra, “a cutting, a hewing,” from caesus, the past form of caedō, “to cut down.”

同家族的字

  • decidefrom Latin “cut off” — de- plus the same caedō, “to cut”
  • concise“cut short,” from the same Latin cutting verb
  • precisefrom the same caedō family: cut to an exact point
  • incisiona cutting into; same Latin root

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

caesuranoun/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/

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    A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

    • The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
    • Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
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    human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyUsing two words to divide a metrical foot.

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    mediapublishingtypographyThe caesura mark ‖ or ||.

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    rareA break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

    • Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
    • A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。