noun. A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.

noun. A pause or interruption, as in conversation.

noun. In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division.

noun. A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.

noun. etc. See cesura, cesural, etc.

noun. A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

noun. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation).

noun. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.

noun. In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot.

noun. a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

noun. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)

"Among occasional variations of the normal strophe as here described may be mentioned the following: The end-rhyme is in a few instances feminine instead of masculine; while on the other hand the ending of the first half-lines is occasionally masculine instead of feminine, that is, the caesura is not "ringing.""