masculine caesura

English

Noun

masculine caesura (plural masculine caesuras or masculine caesurae)

1. (prosody) A caesura following a stressed syllable.

   Coordinate term: feminine caesura

   • 1978, Denys Page, Rufinus: The Epigrams of Rufinus, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29:

     Where the main caesura is not followed by bucolic caesura, lines with feminine caesura differ from lines with masculine caesura in two respects: […]