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-consumer,
end-diastolic volume,
end-feet,
end-of-file,
end-position nystagmus,
end-stopped,
end-systolic volume,
end-tidal,
end.,
endamage,
endameba
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 GayleyAn end-stopped line has a pause at the end, usually indicated by some mark of punctuation.
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I |Edmund SpenserThe 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 SpenserObviously 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