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Definition of Enjambment
1. Noun. The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause.
Definition of Enjambment
1. Noun. A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enjambment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enjambment
Literary usage of Enjambment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... Cymbeline — Pericles — General considerations—The pause—The trisyllabic foot
and its revival —The redundant syllable — enjambment — The morphology and ..."
2. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... form of the same measure; indeed, this enjambment is common in Denham, and is
found in Cooper's Hill itself. ..."
3. Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547 by John Milton Berdan (1920)
"is this freedom in the number of syllables and the placing of accents, as well
as the enjambment, that technically differen- the couplet of the Elizabethans ..."
4. Old Spanish Readings: Selected on the Basis of Critically Edited Texts by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1911)
"But, as the latter points out, the MS. has the usual mark denoting the end of a
verse after escripto. The enjambment is not likely. ..."
5. Old English Poetry by John Duncan Ernst Spaeth (1921)
"... verses (see next section, unstressed syllables), and by run- on lines, where
the meaning "runs on" from the end of one line into the next (enjambment). ..."
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