end stop
end stop, in prosody, a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse, as in these lines from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism:
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Compare enjambment.
Citation Information
Article Title:
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Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
02 June 2017
Access Date:
March 14, 2025