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- noun Plural form of
enjambment .
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Examples
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It's undeniable that Mr. Wilbur's tight-lipped formality and his traditional menu of topics—nature and art uppermost—were out of touch with the naked emotionalism and the shaggy enjambments of the post-Beat generation.
A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011
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At first I focused on the form more than anything, noticing the beats, the enjambments, the end-stops, and trying to figure out the individual feet, but I didn't analyze it that far.
Poem a day joshenglish 2007
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Keats, bless his self-taught genius soul, came up with some scary enjambments.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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And notice what Barbara Guest gains by playing this coiled syntax off against her line breaks: telling enjambments like "taste the dark/grapes" and "coupling mind/and heart"--reminding us that when mind and heart are joined, they join dissimilar things in poetic vision.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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(I intended only to quote one line, but the enjambments and the surprising accumulation of images in line after line kept me quoting, not able to decide where to stop — it is the power of the poem — just its physical power).
“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Keats, bless his self-taught genius soul, came up with some scary enjambments.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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The diaries are filled with enjambments of the mundane and the magical: William is interrupted while writing the opening lines of the "Immortality Ode" by the arrival of cartload of dung for him to work into the garden.
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The lyric is an "early song," sung on the dawn of a May morning with the early charm of the English Renaissance song still blossoming in its shifting meters and exuberant enjambments.
'The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton' 2008
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Savitri is so likeable as there are no enjambments; so why create artificial chasms?
Archive 2007-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Savitri is so likeable as there are no enjambments; so why create artificial chasms?
The wholeness of the poem receives a dent Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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