Beowulf

what are the examples of caesura in the poem 'Beowulf'?

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Caesuras provide a rhythm.They typically consisted of a pause in the middle of a line with an equal number of syllables on both sides of the pause. An example would be,

"Swaddled in flames, it came gliding and flexing and racing toward its fate"