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enjambment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | enjambement |
| Type of | inflection, prosody |
Examples of enjambment
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Mainstream media are unlikely to wax eloquent about enjambment again anytime soon.
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Add rhyme and enjambment can alter the sense of a poem even more deeply.
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Poets use this mechanism together with enjambment to attract attention to certain words.
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Its opposite is enjambment, where the sense runs on into the next line.
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Finally, Petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following.
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Dryden's solution was a closed couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment.
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Suddenly enjambment was trending on social media.
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Ben Jonson, meanwhile, used a tighter blank verse with less enjambment in his great comedies Volpone and The Alchemist.
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The informality is established syntactically by enjambment-only 13 of the poem's 93 lines are clearly end-stopped.
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- The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
- Enjambment or enjambement is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line. ...
- A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause
- The continuation of the sense and therefore the grammatical construction beyond the end of a line of verse or the end of a couplet. ...
- Running one line of poetry into another without stopping.
- In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them.
- Continuing a sentence beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
- The lack of a pause between two lines of a poem
- One line of poetry that ends without a pause and continues into to the next; a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line.
