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caesural continuation break

Sound
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A caesural break that simultaneously halts and propels the line’s sense, merging suspension with forward syntactic motion.

Detailed Definition
A caesural continuation break is a mid-line pause that simultaneously halts and propels the reader forward by juxtaposing syntactic suspension with semantic anticipation; this paradoxical caesura heightens tension between pause and progression, often used in lyric poetry to mirror psychological hesitation or epiphanic delay before revelation.
Example
Example in poetry:
“I wanted to stop— / but the sentence kept walking” places a caesura before thought continues into the next line; “The door stood open—yet / no one entered” balances hesitation with syntactic movement; in dramatic monologue, a dash can register a speaker’s self-interruption without ending the utterance; this differs from a terminal caesura because the pause delays rather than completes the phrase
Additional Notes
A line break where the caesura (pause) seems to guide the reader directly to the beginning of the next line; The internal pause is placed to create an anticipation of the continuation, making the line break feel less like a stop and more like a bridge; Related to caesural run-on.
Also Known As
caesura continuation pause transition break linked caesura Caesural enjambment break
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