In my dissertation and a series of essays (including this co-authored article with Myra Stokes), I argued that the caesura must be audibly signalled by a beat at the conclusion of the a-verse and proposed some rules that may be operating with regard to the caesura based on the close studies of the Gawain-poet’s works and other poems composed in the North or the North West Midlands. I also demonstrated that the final dip can contain more than one syllable if what follows the pre-caesural beat is a unit lexically (the remaining syllables of the same word) or syntactically.