Crossword-Solution: CAESURAS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The same caesuras recur again and again, [70] and the only merit of his rhythm is its undeniable originality.

But he must not imagine that any laboratory system of tapping syncopated time, or any painstaking marking of macrons (-) breves (u) and caesuras (||) will give him full initiation into the mysteries of prose cadences which have been built, not merely out of stressed and unstressed syllables, but out of the passionate intellectual life of many generations of men.

There should be a marked accent upon the long syllable next preceding the caesura, and a slighter one upon that next before each of the demi-caesuras.

The essential caesuras are those between the lesser sections, each of which is written in a different key.

But it was in the _Ballades_ (for instance, the splendid _Pas d'armes du roi Jean_, written in verses of three syllables) and the _Orientales_ (of which may be taken for a sample the sixth section of _Navarin_, a perfect torrent of outlandish terms poured forth in the most admirable verse, or _Les Djinns_, where some of the stanzas have lines of two syllables each) that the grand provocation was thrown to the believers in alexandrines, careful caesuras and strictly separated couplets.