caesura

• In Greek and Latin hexameters the best and most common caesura is the penthemimeral (_i.e. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• In the iambic trimeter (consisting of three dipodia or pairs of feet), both in Greek and Latin, the most usual caesura is the penthemimeral; next, the hephthemimeral Greek: Ô tek | na Kad | mou tou | palai | nea | trophę] Supplex | et o | ro reg | na per | Proser | pinae v.04 p.0945] Verses in which neither of these caesuras occurs are considered faulty. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• A caesura is often called masculine when it falls after a long, feminine when it falls after a short syllable The best treatise on Greek and Latin metre for general use is L. Müller, Die Metrik der Griechen und Romer (1885); see also the article VERSE CAFFEINE, or THEINE (1.3.7 trimethyl 2.6 dioxypurin), C_8H_{10}N_4O_2ˇH_2O, a substance found in the leaves and beans of the coffee tree, in tea, in Paraguay tea, and in small quantities in cocoa and in the kola nut. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Well done then, our Jan boy For I had replied to Robin now, with all the weight and cadence of penthemimeral caesura (a thing, the name of which I know, but could never make head nor tail of it), and the strife began in a serious style, and the boys looking on were not cheated. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
• (43 In order to make the measure of poetry perceptible to the ear, there should generally be a slight pause at the end of each line, even where the sense does not require it There is, also, in almost every line of poetry, a pause at or near its middle, which is called the caesura This should, however, never be so placed as to injure the sense of the passage. —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

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