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Note: For clarity, I generally prefer the words heavy and light for syllables, and long and short for vowels, so that's what I'll be using here. I'm also going to explain a lot of terms that you ...

Let me discuss your second example first. If I understand it correctly, your question is: “OK, caesura can only happen at the end of a word, but is it admissible that it happens one syllable earlier, ...

Dickinson has an excellent resource for beginners: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/scansion They've been hard at work at getting a lot of resources for students on their website, like Allen and ...