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  • adjective grammar continued without a pause

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Examples

  • Chaucer; and the heroic couplet, handled in the free, "enjambed" fashion of Hunt and Keats.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • "enjambed," very mobile, and in the right hands admirably fluent and adaptable couplet, which William Browne and Chamberlayne practised in the early and middle seventeenth century, which Leigh Hunt revived and taught to Keats, and of which, later than Mr Arnold himself, Mr

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • "enjambed" from the previous one -- is strange to him, or sparingly used by him, or used without success.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Instead of marking the transition from octave to sestet with the traditional change in rhyme, the poet shifts from enjambed to endstopped lines.

    An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak" 2009

  • Instead of marking the transition from octave to sestet with the traditional change in rhyme, the poet shifts from enjambed to endstopped lines.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • Unless the line is forcibly enjambed and then, to my ear, it sounds bad.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Unless the line is forcibly enjambed and then, to my ear, it sounds bad.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Your text has the energy, the enjambed imagery of a found and/or sculpted text—flarf or recombined.

    Vanessa Place, Round One Lemon Hound 2008

  • Your text has the energy, the enjambed imagery of a found and/or sculpted text—flarf or recombined.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Erotically enjambed in our loft bed, Clea patrolled my utterances for subject, verb, predicate, as a chef in a five-star kitchen would minister a recipe, insuring that a soufflé or sourdough would rise.

    ‘The King of Sentences’ « Gerry Canavan 2007

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