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The rhythm in Donne's "The Canonization" is much affected by the strong  breaks in the middle of almost every line. What do we call these?

                                For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
                                     Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
                                     My five grey hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout,
                                 With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
                                         Take you a course, get you a place,
                                         Observe his Honour, or his Grace,
                                 Or the King's real, or his stamped face
                                     Contemplate, what you will, approve,
                                     So you will let me love.
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
masculine rhyme beat/ictus end-stopped
feminine rhyme implied offbeat anacrusis
multiple rhyme unrealized beat hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme  tumbling verse diaeresis
monorhyme  sprung rhythm substitution
rhyme riche poetic contraction elision
internal rhyme synaeresis hemistich
assonance  syncope caesura