How to pronounce“caesura”in English
And there are, as a rule, four per line, and the lines, like Hollander's here, like Pound's that I just read, tend to divide in the middle.
There's a caesura that breaks the line in two, and Hollander goes on describing it.
In addition to these strong stresses, the line is held together by alliterative links that join the words strongly and
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Definitions of “caesura”
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
“The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.”
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.