Exceptions are mostly found in Eastern Latvian dialects, which allow words to start one syllable before or after where caesura normally would be, thus allowing five syllable combinations.

Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.

In Latin and Greek poetry, a caesura is a break within a foot caused by the end of a word.

In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide with the beginning or the end of a metrical foot ; in modern prosody, however, it is only called one when the ending also coincides with an audible pause in the line.

Two feet form a dipody and after every dipody there is a caesura, which cannot be in the middle of the word.

Occasionally both contraction occurs and I is inserted instead of diminutive ending in I i. e. the ending is retained, but separated from the rest of the word by caesura.

Within the individual songs or poems oof the Chuci, lines generally consist of three syllables followed by the word 兮 (, Old Chinese: * gˤe ), which indicates a type of caesura, and then another three syllables.

Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

The caesura is also handled far more strictly, with Homer's feminine caesura becoming exceedingly rare, and the second-foot caesura always paired with one in the fourth.

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

The verse also has a stress preceding the caesura, on either the fourth or sixth syllable.

For example, in the verse below, each odd line has a caesura ( shown by a slash /) after the fourth syllable ( daily, her, won ' dring, mother ) while each even line is without a caesura:

The lines are decasyllabic ( containing ten syllables ), and each is divided by a strong caesura which generally falls after the fourth syllable.

The so-called ballad meter, or the common meter of the hymnodists ( see also hymn ), is usually thought of as a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of trimeter, but it can also be considered a line of heptameter with a fixed caesura at the fourth foot.

The unstressed syllable of the fourth foot is abated in each line in favor of a caesura, forming the line into two hemistichs.

In the accompanying common time musical score, the caesura is attained by rendering the fourth foot as a half note ( or minim ), while the last foot of the line effectively becomes a spondee by being realized as two half notes.

This line also has an inversion of the fourth foot, following the caesura ( marked with "|").

Those Old French lines invariably had a caesura after the fourth syllable.

The Avesta has a parallel stanza of 4x11 syllables with a caesura after the fourth syllable.

Most commonly, the line is divided into two equal parts by a caesura between the sixth and seventh syllables.

The first possible caesura that one encounters in a line is considered the main caesura.

This line also includes a masculine caesura after θεά, a natural break that separates the line into two logical parts.

The line, which lacks a proper caesura, is translated " Not every critic sees an inharmonious verse.

It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line.

Variations of the sequence from line to line, as well as the use of caesura ( logical full stops within the line ) are essential in avoiding what may otherwise be a monotonous sing-song effect.

For example, the stress in a foot may be inverted, a caesura ( or pause ) may be added ( sometimes in place of a foot or stress ), or the final foot in a line may be given a feminine ending to soften it or be replaced by a spondee to emphasize it and create a hard stop.

The line length is scanned by according number of characters ( according to the convention that one character equals one syllable ), and are predominantly either five or seven characters long, with a caesura before the final three syllables.

Metrically its six-character lines are formed into couplets separated in the middle by a strong caesura character ( as the seventh character of the first line ), producing a driving and dramatic rhythm.

A Saturnian line can be divided into two cola or half-lines, separated by a central caesura.

In meter, a caesura ( or ; alternative spellings are cæsura and cesura ) is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition.

It is also usual for there to be a caesura between the sixth and seventh syllables ( as the examples from Pope below illustrate ).

: 4. a slight pause ( caesura ) on the sixth syllable ;

Robert Bridges noted that in the lyrical sections of Samson Agonistes, Milton significantly varied the placement of the caesura.

Unlike later writers, Homeric lines more commonly employ the feminine caesura ; an example occurs in Iliad I. 5 “... and every bird ; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment ”:

No compelling reason is provided for the caesura of persecution, though, unlike in the incident of the satanic verses, where it is the ( temporary ) fruit of Muhammad's accommodation to Meccan polytheism.

There is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot.

Almost all the various carols are in the common dekapentasyllabos ( 15-syllable iamb with a caesura after the 8th syllable ) verse, which means that their wording and tunes are easily interchangeable.

The end of a cycle is marked by a ॥, called a double ḍaṇḍā, and looks like a caesura.

If instead Betty and Carla both owned 7 shares, then Alex would keep the majority bonus for herself, while Betty and Carla would split the minority bonus.

The women would grow their thumbnail extra long so they could split the threads as fine as a hair ( Turner pg.

Such remarks lead to apprehension that the party would be split to the detriment of Obama's election.

If Holstein-Beck's Dutch column were destroyed, the Allied army would be split in two: Eugene's wing would be isolated from Marlborough's, passing the initiative to the Franco-Bavarian forces now engaged across the whole plain.

Another schism in the Conservative ranks, this time from the movement's right wing, would come when a number of the traditionalist Rabbis led by JTS Talmudics professor David Weiss Halivni split from the United Synagogue to form the Union for Traditional Judaism.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Loyalist settlers in what would become New Brunswick persuaded British administrators to split the Colony of Nova Scotia to create the new colony of New Brunswick in 1784.

For a while it looked as if a new civil war would begin as the New Model Army split into factions.

The key to be hashed would be split in 8-bit ( one byte ) parts

It was expected that dating the split of the ancestral human louse into two species, the head louse and the pubic louse, would date the loss of body hair in human ancestors.

It was arguably responsible for the split between Microsoft and IBM, since IBM insisted that OS / 2, originally a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft, would run on a 286 ( and in text mode ).

The resultant cladistic structure would not resemble anything like a binary split into vertebrates and invertebrates.

Though one party appeared to dominate, it had begun to split into rival factions, which would later form the basis of the modern party system.

While both Martin and Lewis went on to successful solo careers for years neither would comment on the split nor consider a reunion.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

This proposal involved a similar split on the board, but its effect would have been even more radical.

Because British company law requires no split in the boards of directors, unions would have directly elected the management of the company.

At the state level, Jackson's committee chairs would split up the responsibilities around the state and organize volunteers at the local level.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

The Soviet Union and Germany would split Poland if an invasion were to occur and Latvia, Estonia and Finland were defined as falling within the Soviet sphere of influence.

Reflecting in part the troubles of the broadcasting business, in 2005 Viacom wrote off over $ 28 billion from its radio acquisitions and, early that year, announced that it would split itself in two.