CAESURAL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Caesural

... Items which glide effortless into the brain in desultory reading are not so easily remembered if the examination is in store. Certain gentlemen have recently been reading Milton with a pair of compasses in order to discover the exact point of the caesural pause in every line: they give figures, strike percentages, and set questions which even the leading character in "Paradise Lost" couldn't answer. Literary microscopy is likely to ruin Shakespeare's reputation in school and would have done so long ago but for Lamb's ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... stressed to its unstressed syllables. All lines have a stress (leve) on the rhyme syllable, and if they have more than four syllables they have one or more other stresses. Lines that consist of more than eight syllables are usually broken by a caesural pause, which must follow a stressed syllable. In lines of ten syllables the pause comes generally after the fourth syllable, sometimes after the fifth; in lines of ...

— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield