caesura

There is also a break or caesura which in five-syllable verses falls after the second syllable and in seven-syllable verses after the fourth.

It was in some hundreds of verses, which I did my best to balance as Pope did, with a caesura falling in the middle of the line, and a neat antithesis at the end.

Caesuras are often denoted by punctuation and, as in music, create breath pauses.

Ross conceives of and presents enchantment as questions, multiplicities, heresies, and caesuras, and he conceives of disenchantment as answers, norms, orthodoxies, grasping for closure.

Despite accolades given for a condensed and lucid monograph, one wonders why the post-revolutionary period and Stalinism were included at all, given the apparent radical caesuras of 1905 and 1917.

Koch calls such resting points caesuras, and the segments of melody they divide are called incises (similar to subphrases in today's terminology).

Corey teases the reader with epodes and false caesuras, daring us to lock his lines together like errant Tetris pieces to form the elusive wholeness of a conventional sonnet.

The exhibition's narrative is organized around three critical caesuras: 1926, when the two major organs of the movement, The Worker-Photographer and Soviet Photo, were founded; 1929, the year that worker-photography began growing beyond this initial German-Soviet dialogue to become an international initiative with cadres in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Britain, the Netherlands, and the Americas; and 1935, when Popular Front strategy shifted the movement's focus away from the rhetoric of class struggle to the creation of a united front against fascism.

In short, Grossman's accounts make it abundantly clear that the postwar era in Germany was characterized by radical reversals, sudden and extreme shifts in values, and historical caesuras. That is one of the two reasons why specialists and lay readers alike who are interested in the immediate postwar years should find this book well worth reading.

Skampa), both the two levels--the sharp contrasts and the continuity of the "story"--are equally represented and the music continues to tremble neurotically; the placing of caesuras between the terse little motifs, but also minimal or scarcely any pauses between the individual movements contribute to the success of this approach.

8: German Romanticism), the entire twentieth century, with its many historical caesuras and literary movements, is compressed into a single volume, the tenth and last of the series.