"Caesural" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stressed to its unstressed syllables. All lines have a stress (leve) on the rhyme syllable, and if they have more than four syllables they have one or more other stresses. Lines that consist of more than eight syllables are usually broken by a caesural pause, which must follow a stressed syllable. In lines of ten syllables the pause comes generally after the fourth syllable, sometimes after the fifth; in lines of twelve syllables, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield |
