Caesura

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Caesura – A pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not, often mirroring

natural speech (Jago 1482). Example: “On My First Son” by Ben Johnson O could I lose all father! For why
Will man lament the stare he should envy.

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