enjambment
[en-jam-muh nt, -jamb-]
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noun, plural en·jamb·ments [en-jam-muh nts, -jamb-] /ɛnˈdʒæm mənts, -ˈdʒæmb-/. Prosody.
the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
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The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit.
Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III|John ClevelandEnjambment, en-jamb′ment, n. in verse, the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of the line.
Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
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Word Origin for enjambment
C19: from French, literally: a straddling, from enjamber to straddle, from en- 1 + jambe leg; see jamb
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enjambment
also enjambement, 1837, from French enjambement or from enjamb (c.1600), from French enjamber "to stride over," from en- (see en- (1)) + jambe "leg" (see jamb).
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