enjambment

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I think about the words at the end of my lines, the sound, the air, the enjambment or not.

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  1. noun The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.

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  • Tyhey understood it wasn't enough to forsake punctuation or eschew rhyme; the poets had to find the right combination of variables and rules, in emuration, enjambment, or alliteration, to make the words work as a poem How close are they at SFI to making complexity work as a science? —  Omni: May 1994
  • I think about the words at the end of my lines, the sound, the air, the enjambment or not. —  Via Negativa
  • In this stanza the poet uses enjambment (the running through of ideas from one line to another without a stop) as is evident by the fact that the whole stanza is of only one sentence. —  LearnHub Activities
  • Later in the paragraph enjambment is used by the poet and he shows how the child does not appreciate the action taken by his father for his wrong doing and takes the punishment too personally. —  LearnHub Activities
  • For me, how the poem appears on the page, and how words meet the eye and silent ear, and the rhythm of the lines and line-breaks (enjambment) in free verse (but not so free) are instinctual in me. —  Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot
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  1. French enjambement, from Old French enjamber, to straddle : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + jambe, leg; see jamb.
 

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