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  1. Mar 2023
    1. hid     the day

      Berryman used the caesura, extra space that can serve to represent a pause or an interruption. In this case, the caesura creates a pause to ponder, however briefly, whether Henry is hiding himself, or something else. Or both. Other punctuation can be used to show the caesura, such as a dash, ellipsis, comma, a literal line break, etc. Note that just a few lines later Berryman employs another technique to a similar end, the ",—" combination.

    2. his point,—a trying

      Another caesura