## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <caesura>

`<caesura>` | marks the point at which a metrical line may be divided.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from phrase.verse

Example

    <l>Hw&ae;t we Gar-Dena <caesura/> in gear-dagum</l>
    <l>&t;eod-cyninga <caesura/> &t;rym gefrunon,</l>
    <l>hy &d;a &ae;&t;elingas <caesura/> ellen fremedon.</l>

Note | .
Module | Declared in file teivers2.dtd; Base tag set for Verse: enabled by TEI.verse
Class | phrase.verse
Data Description | Empty element

May occur within

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Declaration

    <!ELEMENT caesura %om.RO; EMPTY>
    <!ATTLIST caesura
          %a.global;>

See further | 9.3 Components of the Verse Line

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