This line includes a masculine caesura after ???, a natural break that separates the line into two logical parts. Homeric lines more commonly employ feminine caesurae; this preference is observed to an even higher degree among the Alexandrian poets. An example of a feminine caesura is the opening line of the Odyssey:

????? u?? ??????, ?????, || ??????????, ?? u??? ????? || ("Tell me, Muse, of the man || of many wiles, who very much (wandered)")