Question: What's the difference between a caesura and a diaeresis?

Answer:

Caesura and diaeresis both refer to breaks in a line of poetry. When the end of a word occurs in the middle of a foot or metron, the break is called a caesura. A diaeresis occurs when foot end and word end coincide.

Greek and Latin Poetry Meter FAQ Index:

• What Is an Anceps?
• What Is a Caesura?
• What's an Example of a Caesura?
• What's the Difference Between a Caesura and a Diaeresis?

• What Is Dactylic Hexameter?
• What Is a Diaeresis?
• What Is an Example of an Elegiac Couplet?
• What Is an Ictus?
• What Is Meter?
• What Is a Metron?
• What is Prosody?
• How Do You Scan a Line of Latin Poetry?