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单词 end-stopped
释义

end-stopped

[ end-stopt ]
/ ˈɛndˌstɒpt /

adjective Prosody.

(of a line of verse) ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.

Origin of end-stopped

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby end-stopped

end rhyme, endrin, end run, endshake, end stage, end-stopped, Endsville, end-systolic volume, end table, end-tidal, end to end
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Example sentences from the Web for end-stopped

  • Here we have blank verse, distinctively Fletcherian with its feminine endings and its end-stopped lines.

    Francis Beaumont: Dramatist|Charles Mills Gayley
  • An end-stopped line has a pause at the end, usually indicated by some mark of punctuation.

    Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|Edmund Spenser
  • The rhythm of the meter is also varied by the alternating of end-stopped and run-on lines, as in the last quotation.

    Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|Edmund Spenser
  • Obviously one may find such clear phrase-pauses, without punctuation, as will justify the caption "end-stopped."

    English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.

British Dictionary definitions for end-stopped

end-stopped

adjective

(of verse) having a pause at the end of each line
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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