caesura vs surcease

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. 

surcease

noun
  • Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission. 

verb
  • To come to an end; to desist. 

  • To bring to an end. 

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