It will be seen that the normal number of accents in the line is five, though the fifth line, quite exceptionally, has six, with an additional accent at the caesural pause.
The caesural pause preserves e in draughte from elision.
The final e in sonn-e occurs at thecaesural pause; candle is pronounced nearly as candl'.
The caesural pause comes after Ector, which might allow the intrusion of the word of before king.
The latter syllable of Venus comes at the caesural pause; but the scansion is best mended by omitting nygh; see footnote.
After beholde comes thecaesural pause, so that the final e in beholde does not count.
It is this prosody, dependent usually upon a strong caesural pause to differentiate it from prose, which may account for the harshness of some of Wyatt's verse, and which rendered possible the barbarous metre of Barclay.
The final e in glutonye is preserved by the caesural pause; but the scansion of the line is more easily seen by supposing it suppressed.
This makes he emphatic; and we may then treat the e in god-e as a light extra syllable, at the caesural pause; for doing which there is ample authority.
The final e in plese is preserved from elision by the caesural pause.
The easiest way of scanning the line is to ignore the elision of the final e in had-de, which is preserved, as often, by the caesural pause.
In a few scattered instances we find strophes that rhyme throughout in the caesura as well as at the end of lines;[10] occasionally the first and second lines, or still less frequently the third and fourth, alone have caesural rhyme.
The caesural pause should never be so placed as to injure the sense.
This is to be corrected by making the caesural pause yield to the sense.
There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line, which is called the caesura or caesural pause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caesural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
