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Metrical Pause

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Metrical Pause Defined

A "rest" or "hold" that has a temporal value, usually to compensate for the omission of an unstressed syllable in a foot.
Sidelight: Neither a metrical pause itself nor its length can be scanned, but scansion will show the omission of the unstressed syllable(s) it replaces.
Sidelight: Edgar Allan Poe described the metrical pause as "a variable foot which is the most important in all verse," but some theorists disagree that a time value is valid in modern metrics.
Sidelight: A pause that is non-metrical and expressed only in the performance is called a caesura.

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