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end-stopped

 
Dictionary: end-stopped   (ĕnd'stŏpt')
adj.
Ending in a syntactic and rhythmic pause. Used of a line of verse or a couplet.


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Literary Dictionary: end-stopped
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end‐stopped, brought to a pause at which the end of a verse linecoincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax. End‐stopping, the opposite of enjambment, gives verse lines an appearance of self‐contained sense; itwas favoured especially by Pope and other 18th‐century poets in English in their heroic couplets, and by the classical French poets in their alexandrines. See also closed couplet.

Poetry Glossary: End-Stopped
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Denoting a line of verse in which a logical or rhetorical pause occurs at the end of the line, usually marked with a period, comma, or semicolon.

WordNet: end-stopped
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
  Antonym: run-on (meaning #1)


 
 

 

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