enjambment
noun
the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
enjambed
-
a word derived from
enjambment.
Example Sentences
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She tackled thorny subjects — war, family, race, death, sex, aging, guilt, love, estrangement, legacy, abortion, homelessness, lynchings in the South, environmental catastrophe — with diamond-sharp honesty and lyrical enjambed lines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Under the direction of Adam Brace, Reich flits seamlessly between bits, with punch lines cleverly enjambed at the ends of his sentences.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Bhatnagar built a new program to comb through this corpus and write sonnets with enjambed lines—that is, phrases that flow over naturally from one line to the next:
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2020
I read it and find myself getting jammed rather than enjambed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2020
Blank verse was tabooed as too prose-like; so, too, were the enjambed rhymes.
From Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden
