masculine caesura

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Noun

masculine caesura (plural masculine caesuras or masculine caesurae)

  1. (prosody) A caesura following a stressed syllable.
    Coordinate term: feminine caesura
    • 1978, Denys Page, Rufinus: The Epigrams of Rufinus, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
      Where the main caesura is not followed by bucolic caesura, lines with feminine caesura differ from lines with masculine caesura in two respects: []