ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A caesura is a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics. A caesura will usually occur near the middle of a poetic line but can also occur at the beginning or the end of a line. In poetry, there are two types of caesural breaks: feminine and masculine.

Detailed explanation-2: -A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. A medial caesura splits the line in equal parts, as is common in Old English poetry (see Beowulf).

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of Caesura || Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us || – don’t tell! They’d banish || – you know!

Detailed explanation-4: -The effect of a caesura often depends on the tone and content of the individual poem, but it often has the effect of creating contrast, or providing a pause to allow the reader to take in the information presented in the first part of the line.

Detailed explanation-5: -Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.