caesura vs halt

caesura

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

  • Using two words to divide a metrical foot. 

  • The caesura mark ‖ or ||. 

  • A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point. 

halt

noun
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

verb
  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

How often have the words caesura and halt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )