Question

How do you find caesura ?

Answer 1

Hint:A caesura is a pause marked by some form of punctuation such as a period, comma, ellipsis, or dash. It is the one that occurs within a line of poetry, usually A caesura doesn't have to be placed in the exact middle of a line of poetry. It can be placed anywhere after the first word and before the last word of a line. We will learn about it in detail in the complete answer below.

Complete answer:
Let us start with an example to know more about caesura.
In the following line “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.", the comma after "Verona" marks a caesura.
Caesura have been used widely in poetry since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Back then, the term was even more specific and referred to pauses that actually threw off the meter of a line of poetry. The Romans and Greeks, however, wrote their poetry using much more rigid conventions than that of in English verse, and the word caesura has long since come to mean simply a pause in the middle of a line, such as-

To be, or not to be — that is the question.
In this famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the dash in the middle of the line represents a pronounced pause. Read the line aloud yourself and you will hear the pause. The comma after "To be" is another example of caesura in this line, though the pause is brief.

Note:Writers use caesurae to create variation in the rhythm of a poem, or to emphasise words in the middle of lines that might not otherwise receive attention. Since line breaks in poetry tend to serve as a natural pause regardless of whether the lines are end-stopped with punctuation. It is used to break the monotony that occurs due to the rhythm of poems with lines of equal length. It remains unvaried without the use of caesurae to create pauses in the middle of lines.