END STOP


Meaning of END STOP in English

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.

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