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end-stopped (

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adj.

Ending in a syntactic and rhythmic pause. Used of a line of verse or a couplet.

end-stopped

adj

(Literature / Poetry) (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line

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Adj.

end-stopped - (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line

run-on - (verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines

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The verse is unrimed, not arranged in stanzas, and with lines more commonly end-stopped (with distinct pauses at the ends) than is true in good modern poetry.

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