- In poetry,
enjambment (/ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt/ or /ɪnˈdʒæmmənt/; from the
French enjamber) is
incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the
meaning 'runs over' or...
- Line
breaks may
occur mid-clause,
creating enjambment, a term that
literally means 'to straddle'.
Enjambment "tend[s] to
increase the pace of the poem"...
- or
break in a
verse where one
phrase ends and
another phrase begins.
Enjambment–The
continuation of a
sentence without a
pause beyond the end of a line...
- clause, or sentence)
corresponds in
length to the line. Its
opposite is
enjambment,
where the
sentence runs on into the next line.
According to A. C. Bradley...
- po****r in the 18th century. The
looser type of couplet, with
occasional enjambment, was one of the
standard verse forms in
medieval narrative poetry, largely...
- Enough. — King John, 3.2
Shakespeare also used
enjambment increasingly often in his verse, and in his last
plays was
given to using...
-
Dactylic hexameter (also
known as
heroic hexameter and the
meter of epic) is a form of
meter or
rhythmic scheme frequently used in
Ancient Gr**** and Latin...
-
thise wastours / with
glotonye destruyeth. By
contrast with caesura,
enjambment is
incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the
meaning runs over from...
- It is
written in
iambic pentameter,
employing rhyming couplets and the
enjambment technique of not
always concluding the
sentences at the ends of lines...
-
adheres to the
Miltonic conception of the form, with a
greater usage of
enjambment. When I
consider how my
light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark...
