#198 caesura

caesura- in prose, a pause especially for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line

-C16 from Latin caedere to cut

Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, 35 or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible caesura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.

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