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a definite pause within a line of poetry, often signalled by a punctuation mark. This feature may be used more than once in a line, or when there is no pause at the end of the previous line. E.g. â?¦ And think that I may never live to trace / Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; / And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, / That I shall never look upon thee more ... (Keats).
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the word lyric comes from lyre, a stringed musical instrument. It therefore originally meant a...
a part of speech that is used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show place, time, direction,...
the lesson to be learnt from a story; also the description of character in a person.
additional information in a sentence given between brackets, commas or dashes, e.g. Mr Smith...