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- In poetry, enjambment (/ɪnˈdʒæmmənt, ɛn-, -ˈdʒæmb-/; from the French enjamber) is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps...
- Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter used in Ancient Gr**** epic and didactic poetry: 19  as well as in and epic, didactic, and satirical, and pastoral...
- thise wastours / with glotonye destruyeth. By contrast with caesura, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- asks God to do ("break, blow, burn and make me new"). Donne also uses enjambment between lines three and four to speed up the flow as he builds to his...
-                        Enough. — King John, 3.3 Shakespeare also used enjambment increasingly often in his verse, and in his last plays was given to using...
- 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...
- 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...