caesura

IPA: kˈeɪsˈʊrʌ

A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
(typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
(rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

Examples of "caesura" in Sentences

Well, there seems to be an intergalactic-sized caesura.
Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area.
"Labor Day," from The Triumph of Achilles, is occasion only to remember her father's death a year ago, which the poet processes conclusively with this profound insight about the length of a human life: "Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura."
Among occasional variations of the normal strophe as here described may be mentioned the following: The end-rhyme is in a few instances feminine instead of masculine; while on the other hand the ending of the first half-lines is occasionally masculine instead of feminine, that is, the caesura is not "ringing."