caesura
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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
There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line, which is called the caesura or caesural pause.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
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