enjambment
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- noun
- /ɪnˈdʒæmbmənt/
- Literature
- The author skillfully employed enjambment, creating a connection between lines that deepened the emotional impact of the poem.
- internal enjambment
Examples
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The use of enjambment in her poem allows the thoughts to flow smoothly from one line to the next.
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The next unit is defined by a single tercet (11.73-75), but the rhyming structure is partly hidden by enjambment, giving the illusion of "natural" speech rather than a formal stanzaic unit.
Academic text (2003) -
First, on the subject of enjambment
Academic text (2005) -
The phrase "little need / of foreign helps" also seems beyond the spectrum of enjambment allowed in "June" or "November."
Academic text (2005) -
Such interrupted syntax does not, as in enjambment, continue to the next line.
Academic text (2005) -
It's got a solid analysis of the formal features, including careful attention to sound, rhythm, enjambment, repetition, all that.
Blog text (23) -
There is no enjambment between stanzas, and what concatenation there is consists of a simple set of logical relationships.
Academic text (2005) -
Otherwise, the language remains determinedly spare, avoiding even the minor freedoms of movement that enjambment would afford.
Academic text (2016) -
Shields' literary allusions suggest an intellectual woman's love poem, and her repeated use of enjambment and caesura gives her poem a conversational, unconventional tone.
Academic text (2013) -
When reading poetry, recognizing enjambment can enhance your understanding of the poem's rhythm and meaning.
Synonyms
The continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next without a pause
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enjambment comes from old French parts en- and jambe, where jambe means 'leg' and the original idea was 'to step over'. So, an enjambment in poetry is like 'stepping over' the end of a line, and the sentence continues into the next line without a pause.