Questions tagged [caesura]
For questions regarding caesura, a certain kind of pause in ancient poetry. Consider using also broader tags about poetry or poetic meters.
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Caesura before or after "-que"
Can a word with the enclitic "-que" still have a caesura before the que? E.g. in the verse:
Arma virumque cano ... is there a caesura between virum and que. Or is there no caesura since the ...
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Principal caesura in unus erat toto line I.6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses
I am scanning Ovid's metamorphoses. For the line "unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe," I have - - | - - | - - | - ' ' | - ' ' | - x. There doesn't seem to be an obvious position for the ...
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What is the behaviour of liaisons and elisions over a caesura?
I'm currently composing a Latin poem, which I'm writing in Alcmanian strophes. The dactylic tetrameter is not usually thought of as having a caesura, so my question pertains mostly to the hexameter ...
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How does the caesura work on this line?
sed leve pondus erat nec quod cognoscere possent
Solis equi, solitaque iugum gravitate carebat
(Ovid Metamorphoses book 2)
At first I thought it might be like this, as my first explorations of Ovid ...
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Caesuras in Phalaecian verses
In short: I need help to analyse the versification of some verses written by Catullus.13. Theses verses are pure hendecasyllabic Phalaecian, namely - - | - u u | - u | - u | - u . What bothers me is ...
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When does caesura occur in a dactylic hexameter?
Wikipaedia says this:
In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide with the beginning or the end of a metrical foot; in modern prosody, however, it is ...
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