caesura

This creates a medial caesura, splitting the line into two more or less equal halves, a technique famously employed a thousand years ago by the unknown poet who set “Beowulf” to the page.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2019

That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019

It’s an incredibly active act of reading: you must craft some portion of the narrative yourself, filling in the caesura.

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2017

Otho Each line of verse has been split at the caesura.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010

What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

Cases in which caesuras and grammatical breaks are inconsistent are numberless.

From A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing by Robert Seymour Bridges