caesura

noun4

1. •
   A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

   • Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my caesuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […] — 1857
2. •
   Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
3. •
   (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

   • A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good. — 2022
4. •
   The caesura mark ‖ or ||.