Question: What's the difference between a caesura and a diaeresis?
Answer: Caesura and diaeresis both refer to breaks in a line of poetry. When the end of a word occurs in the middle of a foot or metron, the break is called a caesura. A diaeresis occurs when foot end and word end coincide.
Greek and Latin Poetry Meter FAQ Index:
- What Is an Anceps?
- What Is a Caesura?
- What's an Example of a Caesura?
- What's the Difference Between a Caesura and a Diaeresis?
- What Is Dactylic Hexameter?
- What Is a Diaeresis?
- What Is an Example of an Elegiac Couplet?
- What Is an Ictus?
- What Is Meter?
- What Is a Metron?
- What is Prosody?
- How Do You Scan a Line of Latin Poetry?
