Plural of caesura; pauses or breaks that occur within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation.
From Latin 'caesura,' the feminine noun form of the past participle of 'caedere' (to cut), literally meaning 'a cutting' or 'a division.'
In classical Latin poetry, caesuras weren't optional—they were rigid structural requirements that poets had to follow, but in English poetry they became flexible tools for artistic expression!
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