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To pace the reading of Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," as he himself read it, one has to introduce pauses suggested by the rhythm both at the middle and the ends of the lines. In the middle of the line we have a caesura, but what can these silent unstressed syllable positions be called?
 

                             /     *     *  /   *    /     /   (*)   *    /  *    /  *   /    (*)
                            I WILL arise and go now,    and go to Innisfree,

                                *  *  /       /   *     /      /    (*)  *   /       *   /     *     /     (*)
                           And a small cabin build there,    of clay and wattles made:

                                /      /        /      *   *  /       /    (*) *   /     *   *    /   *   /   (*)
                            Nine bean-rows will I have there,    a hive for the honeybee,

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