- a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse.
- any break, pause, or interruption.
- (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- (in classical prosody) a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the third or fourth foot of the line
