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What is a caesura?

What is a caesura? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
  2. (prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
  3. (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
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As in life so in poetry, there's need for space, caesura the moment that brings forth brief befogged epiphanies.
He indicates some of the stresses in the manuscript sources of the poem and marks the caesura or pause in each line.
In Baker's opinion, which he verifies in a circular and self-fulfilling fashion, early Anglo-Norman saints' lives observed the caesura strictly.
This means that the verses, in all 4, must be composed of 18 syllables with two compulsory caesura after the fifth and tenth syllables.
Discrepancy is what remains: the interruption, the stagnation of time, the caesura which are the legacy of this century.
Do you think there was anything similar to the Classical Latin caesura?

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