(of verse) having a pause at the end of each line.
（诗）行末停顿的
Example sentencesExamples
One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme.
Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
Where the line is end-stopped by punctuation, the next line frequently begins with a conjunction, and the meaning flows on.
Thus, the elastic sentence of the Dead Man poems offers plenty of variety even though every line is end-stopped.
She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
All eight lines of the poem are end-stopped, but the two that are not punctuated exploit the pauses.
Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
Definition of end-stopped in US English:
end-stopped
adjectiveˈendstäpt
(of verse) having a pause at the end of each line.
（诗）行末停顿的
Example sentencesExamples
One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme.
All eight lines of the poem are end-stopped, but the two that are not punctuated exploit the pauses.
Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
Where the line is end-stopped by punctuation, the next line frequently begins with a conjunction, and the meaning flows on.
Thus, the elastic sentence of the Dead Man poems offers plenty of variety even though every line is end-stopped.
She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.