end-stopped

Adjective

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Antonyms

run on

Examples

In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. Source: Internet

The lines are generally end-stopped, considered as a series of couplets, and exhibit verbal parallelism as a key poetic device. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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