enjambment in English

noun
1
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
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    enjambement

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1. Dryden's solution was a closed Couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment

2. Caesura and enjambment (also known as enjambement) are commonly used techniques that explain how poetry uses those pauses

3. Enjambment Accentuates the desperation of the persona in his experience of despair and darkness in the face of mortality

4. They are un-individuated, if that makes any sense, in the act of sexual union. There is the unutterable sexual rush that can only come about through total corporeal enjambment.

5. Rilke played with a wide variety of verse forms and used numerous virtuoso lyrical means at his disposal: enjambment and internal rhyme, suggestive imagery, forced rhyme and rhythm, alliteration and assonance.

6. A Caesura refers to a pause added into a line of poetry, whilst enjambment removes a pause from the end of a line to allow two or more lines to be read together.

7. Steffen Jacobs, for example, highlighted this procedure during a discussion of Leitner's poem Abends, immer in Die Welt: "Anton G. Leitner's poem Abends, immer offers interesting material exemplifying an extreme form of the enjambment: here the line breaks frequently give the poem an entirely new direction.