Scholars have neglected the critical implications of the Horatian Alcaic caesura, whose very regularity creates a set of metrical expectations the poet may variously satisfy, frustrate and play upon for expressive effects. Dozens of instances are adduced, and grouped under five heads: transgression, emphasis, antithesis, periodical structure and coordination.
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