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Dictionary:
end-stopped (ĕnd'stŏpt') |
| Literary Dictionary: end-stopped |
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 |
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 |
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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