Look up: Enjambment-


  1. enjambment
    [n] - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
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  2. enjambment
    enjambement noun the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
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  3. enjambment
    in prosody, the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse. T.S. Eliot used enjambment in the opening lines of his poem ... [2 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/32

  4. Enjambment
    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. The...
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  5. enjambment
    1) Enjambement 2) Inflection 3) Prosody 4) Where lines of poetry don't stop but run into the next line
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/enjambment/1

  6. Enjambment-
    The continuation of a sentence or phrase across a line break - as opposed to an end-stopped line. Philip Larkin frequently used enjambment e.g. in The Whitsun Weddings:
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

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