Enjambment (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural en·jamb·ments [en-jam-muhnts, -jamb-]. /ɛnˈdʒæm mənts, -ˈdʒæmb-/. Prosody.
  1. the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break: Enjambment is a creative device of long standing, famously used by Homer, Shakespeare, and Eliot, among many other literary luminaries.
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  1. the running over of a sentence from one line of verse into the next
Enjambment (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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