Definition of End-stopped

1. Adjective. (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line.

Antonyms: Run-on

Lexicographical Neighbors of End-stopped

end-filling
end-game
end-games
end-leaf
end-of-life
end-on-end
end-on mattress suture
end-plate
end-point measurement
end-point nystagmus
end-rhymed
end-stopped (current term)
end-systolic volume
end-tidal
end-tidal sample
end-to-end
end-to-end bite
end-to-end occlusion
end artery
end board
end boards
end bud
end bulb
end cap
end caps
end cell

Literary usage of End-stopped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metre of Macbeth: Its Relation to Shakespeare's Earlier and Later Work by David Laurance Chambers (1903)
"D. end-stopped AND RUN-ON LINES. After all the feminine syllables do not ... A line is said to be "end-stopped," when the voice naturally rests at its ..."

2. Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music: Together with Music as a by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"... Accents in the Lines—In Rhyming Verses— In Blank Verse—Example of Greater Regularity—Accent and its Absence in the Final Foot : end-stopped Lines—Run-on ..."

3. Elementary English Composition for High Schools and Academies by Frederick Henry Sykes (1906)
"end-stopped and Run-on Lines.—When the pause comes at the end of the line, the line is sometimes called an end-stopped line. A line that continues the ..."

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