DictionaryAI

caesura

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
  2. Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
  3. The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
  4. A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

We haven’t written up caesura yet: Simple and Standard meanings, examples and a quiz.