masculine caesura

noun

A caesura following a stressed syllable.

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Meanings

nounmasculine caesura (plural masculine caesuras or masculine caesurae)

plural masculine caesuras · plural masculine caesurae

  1. human sciencesA caesura following a stressed syllable.

    Where the main caesura is not followed by bucolic caesura, lines with feminine caesura differ from lines with masculine caesura in two respects: […]

    1978, Denys Page, Rufinus: The Epigrams of Rufinus, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29
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