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Incomplete syntax at the end of a line in poetry
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
Enjambment
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter commonly used in both Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The best known use is for epic poems, such as Homer's Iliad
Dactylic_hexameter
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
thise wastours / with glotonye destruyeth. By contrast with caesura, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from
Metre_(poetry)
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
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
Iambic_pentameter
Form of literary device
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
Poetic_device
Feature in poetry
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
End-stopping
Subdivision of a poem
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"
Line_(poetry)
Poetry written in regular metre but without rhyme
Enough. — King John, 3.3 Shakespeare also used enjambment increasingly often in his verse, and in his last plays was given to using
Blank_verse
1667 epic poem by John Milton
Paradise Lost. He achieves this through various methods such as using enjambment to alter the way the first half of a sentence might be interpreted before
Paradise_Lost
Range of verse forms written in Old Norse
each "couplet", or Germanic line, as a complete syntactic unit, avoiding enjambment where a thought begun on one line continues through the following lines;
Old_Norse_poetry
1673 poem by John Milton
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
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
When_I_Consider_How_My_Light_Is_Spent
Rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
popular in the 18th century. The looser type of couplet, with occasional enjambment, was one of the standard verse forms in medieval narrative poetry, largely
Heroic_couplet
1842 poem by Robert Browning
It is written in iambic pentameter, employing rhyming couplets and the enjambment technique of not always concluding the sentences at the ends of lines
My_Last_Duchess
Word in the English language
offered her a juicy orange. And nuts, she cracked them in the door-hinge. Enjambment can also provide for rhymes. One example is Willard Espy's poem, "The
Orange_(word)
Palace and fortress complex in Granada, Spain
foliate and floral Kufic inscriptions—often formed into arches, columns, enjambments, and "architectural calligrams"—are generally used as decorative elements
Alhambra
Chinese-American poet (born 1987)
written as single stanza works without rhyme or meter. She frequently uses enjambment to create sharp breaks between lines as well as to add to the aesthetic
Wendy_Xu
American hardcore band
end-stopped. There are sentences that spread out over entire verse paragraphs (enjambment), some of them employing complex, hypotactic syntaxes. Rather than follow
Catharsis_(American_band)
Italian scholar and poet (1304–1374)
excluded, but the rhyme of open and closed o is kept. Finally, Petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following
Petrarch
Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Many of the poem's clauses carry over into the following line; these enjambments emphasize Ulysses' restlessness and dissatisfaction. The poem's seventy
Ulysses_(poem)
2020 poetry book by Simon Armitage
noted its variety of literary devices including alliteration, assonance, enjambment, and imagery. They have admired his witty understated style and use of
Zoom!_(poetry_book)
that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. End-stopping line Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
the second and third line. This is a closely related poetry device called enjambment. "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear - work by Lear". Britannica. v t e
Broken_rhyme
Non-fiction work by C. S. Lewis
more likely to pick a wrong meaning because they can rationalize its enjambment. Some of the earlier meanings are only partially recalled in stock phrases
Studies_in_Words
List of methods used to convey information in a narrative
poetic line grammatically connected to the end of the previous line by enjambment. E.g., in "Know then thyself. ‖ Presume not God to scan" (from An Essay
List_of_narrative_techniques
American schoolyard rhyme with rude or profane words
approaches taboo words, only to cut them off and modify them with an enjambment. It shares much of the same melody as the 1937 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke
Miss_Susie
Poem by William Carlos Williams
poet John Hollander cited "The Red Wheelbarrow" as a good example of enjambment to slow down the reader, creating a "meditative" poem. The editors of
The_Red_Wheelbarrow
Poetic form, traditionally fourteen specifically rhymed lines
dividing the poem into two equal parts. Keats makes use of frequent enjambment in "If by dull rhymes our English must be chained" (1816) and divides
Sonnet
American archaeologist
College, earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. Her doctoral dissertation on "Homeric enjambment" was completed in 1949. Will is especially well known for her work on
Elizabeth_Lyding_Will
1994 studio album by Nas
layered rhythms, multisyllabic rhymes, internal half rhymes, assonance, and enjambment. Music critic Marc Lamont Hill of PopMatters elaborates on Nas's lyricism
Illmatic
1636 play by Pierre Corneille
of the line (6 syllables) is referred to as a hemistich (hémistiche). Enjambment is not used in the French alexandrin, but is sometimes employed in English
Le_Cid
1942 collection of poems by Robert Frost
is the heroic couplet, which is often down-played through the use of enjambment, understatement, and conversational language. It gives an ironic, satirical
A_Witness_Tree
2005 single by Juanes
singing to the object of his love. Some lyrics have double meanings or use enjambment to suggest more off-color phrases: Several sentences seem ready to end
La_Camisa_Negra
Middle High German epic poem from around 1200
impression of collective rather than individual reactions is created. Enjambment between stanzas is very rare. The epic frequently creates multiple motivations
Nibelungenlied
Term used to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century
metampsychosis"), and irregular versification which includes frequent enjambment. The poem has been cited as manifesting "the extremes of the metaphysical
Metaphysical_poets
English poet (1869–1928)
She made experimental use of long, prose-like lines, and varieties of enjambment and indentation, which has been praised for its originality. Many of her
Charlotte_Mew
Line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
exemplified by a passage from Poly-Olbion, which features a rare caesural enjambment (symbolized ¦) in the first line: Ye sacred Bards, that to ¦ your harps'
Alexandrine
period or a semicolon. English sonnet enjambment The continuing of a syntactic unit over the end of a line. Enjambment occurs when the sense of the line overflows
Glossary_of_literary_terms
In her own work, Levertov concentrated on various techniques such as enjambment, popular with much of Shakespeare's work, and 'juxtaposition of key words'
Organic_form
Style of the English poet and playwright
Shakespeare adopted many techniques to achieve these effects. These included enjambments, irregular pauses and stops, and extreme variations in sentence structure
Shakespeare's_writing_style
Sonnet cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke
sometimes even within a particular sonnet. Due to the frequent use of enjambment Rilke even breaks through the verse structure. Difficulties in understanding
Sonnets_to_Orpheus
Heroic literary traditions of the Germanic-speaking peoples
Norse poetry tends to be narrated tersely. Eddic poetry rarely features enjambment across lines. West Germanic heroic poetry tends to use what Andreas Heusler
Germanic_heroic_legend
Armenian poet
Davoudian is part of the LGBTQ+ community. "Armen Davoudian on Immigration, Enjambments, and How Poems Can Make Loss Tangible". Literary Hub. March 11, 2024
Armen_Davoudian
American poet (born 1948)
inexact rhymes or metrical substitutions, and is sparing in his use of enjambment. In addition to four collections of poems, Steele is the author of two
Timothy_Steele
Collection of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke
verse forms and used numerous virtuoso lyrical means at his disposal: enjambment and internal rhyme, suggestive imagery, forced rhyme and rhythm, alliteration
The_Book_of_Hours
Statue of the Virgin Mary
sculpture is elegance. Other changes occurred to sculpture, such as less enjambment into the background architecture, the contrasting of light and dark, and
Virgin_of_Paris
Literature written during the English restoration
was a closed couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment. This form was called the "heroic couplet," because it was suitable for
Restoration_literature
American feminist scholar of queer theory (1950–2009)
eroticised, and associated with two-beat lines and lyric as a genre; enjambment (continuing a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without
Eve_Kosofsky_Sedgwick
2012 studio album by Big Boi
transparent persona and a polyvocal delivery that uses devices such as enjambment and deconstructionism. Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly characterizes
Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
Vicious_Lies_and_Dangerous_Rumors
1987 book by Eliot Weinberger
rendition of the stanza (with due attention to grapho-syntactic overtones and enjambment)". Weinberger himself characterizes it as "sound[ing] like Gerard Manley
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Nineteen_Ways_of_Looking_at_Wang_Wei
English poet, critic, playwright, and teacher (born 1955)
count, while a steady slant-rhyme scheme is disrupted by an adroit use of enjambment." Of Achill Island Tagebuch, Martyn Crucefix writes: "Greening's long-established
John_Greening_(poet)
Poem by William Wordsworth
march-like meter in the final two stanzas. The poem also contains multiple enjambments and there is a use of an ABAB rhyme scheme that gives the poem a singsong
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
Poem by William Butler Yeats
last is made up of three iambs. These, in turn, are fulfilled through enjambment, and bleed into the first line of the second stanza (i.e. "The martyrs
Adam's_Curse_(poem)
Medieval dance and musical form
devoid of musical notation making the form reliant on syllabic stress and enjambment to make it recognizable. The estampie is the first known genre of medieval
Estampie
British poet, academic and critic (born 1985)
subtly used devices and effects. Wilkinson disguises his full-rhymes with enjambment, so the audience experience both form and ‘natural flow’ at the same time
Ben_Wilkinson_(poet)
Poetic form based on syllable count
for the reader by indentation, but hidden from the listener by radical enjambment ("fawn- / brown" and "coxcomb- / tinted"). Elizabeth Daryush, known for
Syllabic_verse
Ezra Fleischer. Mazhir is unique among paytanim in his consistent use of enjambment in his poems. Schmelzer 1979, pp. 3–9. The poem is available here, his
Mazhir_ben_Abraham
American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Imagine The Ending" as "a real love song to community" and noted its use of enjambment and unexpected internal rhyme. Riverby have often advocated for progressive
Riverby_(band)
style, and to strengthen verse without abandoning the overflow [i.e. enjambment]," representing a middle path between the eclectic Marinism of the previous
Robert_Wild_(poet)
Retrieved March 11, 2026. "Types of Philippine Poetry Line Break and Enjambment". Scribd. Retrieved March 11, 2026. Orden, Vina (February 19, 2020). "The
Dalit_(poem)
19th century Pre-Romantic Sonnet
hendecasyllables. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, ABAB, CDE, CED. In the poem we can find enjambments, alliterations, apostrophes, synecdoches, anastrophes and a litotes.
A_Zacinto
Type of wordplay
pace... "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" from South Park uses enjambment to replace taboo words with non-taboo phrases with the same initial syllable
Subverted_rhyme
Children's book by J. Timothy Hunt
Beiser does a bang-up job, using all the tricks of the trade, such as enjambment, sound echoes, and internal rhyme ... The rhyming verse is so fresh and
Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog
Bradley_McGogg,_the_Very_Fine_Frog
Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
formal division of the line, a technique known in music, as in poetry, as enjambment. Since Arcadelt lived both in France and Italy, writing secular music
Jacques_Arcadelt
Verse form found in Czech poetry
Vladimír Holan and Oldřich Vyhlídal. The caesura formula is a good base for enjambment. Sometimes a sentence runs from caesura to next caesura, as in "The Seventh
Czech_alexandrine
American poet and novelist (born 1998)
greathouse says "her chapbook is a master class in the potential of enjambment, imbuing each break with the wonder of and trepidation of the unknown
K-Ming_Chang
German writer and publisher
intelligibility and inward magic. With Leitner, the poet, "the art of the enjambment achieves a height that fringes on charlatanry" (Nitzberg). Nitzberg furthermore
Anton_G._Leitner
British poet, critic and magazine editor
alliteration, word repetition, constant shifting of accent and stress, and enjambment. Symons's "A Prelude to Life" — "part autobiography, part essay, part
Arthur_Symons
Poem
repetitions of the word jamais (never)— a word also given emphasis by an enjambment. The poem is structured mirror-like, in the form of a chiasmus: we are
The_Swan_(Baudelaire)
Metre used in Hebrew biblical poetry
22. Budde 1882, pp. 1–52. Dobbs-Allsopp, F.W. (2001). "The Effects of Enjambment in Lamentations (Part 2)". Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft:
Qinah_(metre)
British poet, critic (born 1976)
the most important feature of Ragg's poetry is the movement of strong enjambment that carries a feeling of thought taking place. Thoughts arrive by traversing
Edward_Ragg
Romantic drama
the most exterior to the most abstract". He was not afraid to use "the enjambment that lengthens it", which he preferred to "the inversion that confuses
Battle_of_Hernani
1912 poem
numbers act to separate the stanzas, especially where there is interstanza enjambment between VI and VII, emphasising the idea of separate things that will
The_Convergence_of_the_Twain
Poetic structure popularized by John Milton
play Gorboduc. His employment of the form outside drama, his frequent enjambment, and the relative looseness of his metre were very influential, and he
John_Milton's_poetic_style
Poem by Sharon Olds
medium-length stanza comprising 29 lines of various lengths. Olds utilizes enjambment by cutting her lines off within the sentences, making the reader proceed
Burn_Center_(poem)
Poem by François Villon
has 5 lines. Each stanza has the same rhyme scheme. There are several enjambments. The translation deliberately follows the original as closely as possible
Ballade_des_pendus
Australian poet (born 1965)
Giramondo, 2008 Thempark, BookThug, 2011 Open Sesame, Giramondo, 2012 Enjambment Sisters Present, Black Rider Press, 2013 Cocky's Joy, Giramondo, 2015
Michael_Farrell_(poet)
Australian poet and academic
ISBN 978-0-6482579-6-7 2018: (with Cassandra Atherton, Paul Munden, Jen Webb): Prosody, Enjambment, IPSI Series: Authorised Theft, Canberra, ACT: International Poetry Studies
Paul_Hetherington
thundering winds. His lines are usually end-stopped rather than run-on, enjambments which further add to the sense of dynamism. Howard himself was critical
Styles and themes of Robert E. Howard
Styles_and_themes_of_Robert_E._Howard
Adaptation of the Sapphic stanza for the Polish language
stanzas so as to make a long chain of linked strophes, exhibiting many enjambments from one to the next stanza. He is the author of the poem Sławna wiktoryja
Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry
Sapphic_stanza_in_Polish_poetry
British-American dialect and voice coach
explaining such terms as iambic pentameter, alexandrine, tetrameter, enjambment, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic and epic caesura. As a member of the BBC Drama
Paul_Meier_(voice_coach)
three-line stanzas. According to Kennedy, Doty’s lyricism in Tiara uses enjambment and measured pacing to “transform death into something holy,” highlighting
Tiara_(poem)
Long poem by Hart Crane
requires its reader, novelly, to follow both end-paused and non end-paused enjambments in a style Crane intended to be redolent of the flow of the jazz or classical
The_Bridge_(poem)
American writer
the iambic mode might be obscured by the lack of rhyme and the use of enjambment. Vazakas called his poetry “lyric, but essentially dramatic,” whether
Byron_Vazakas
American poet
being "so carefully arranged, there occasionally appears to be a sort of enjambment between several poems. A link between senses..." Nonetheless, Humphrey
Jane_Satterfield
engage engagement engender engine engineer engorge engrain engross enhance enjambment enjoin enjoy (Old Fr. enjoir) enlace enlarge en masse enmity, from Old
List of English words of French origin (D–I)
List_of_English_words_of_French_origin_(D–I)
Poem by Horace
activities from which Sestius, once brought low, will be excluded, and enjambment to add stress to resolution; "the grammar of the lines mirrors their sense"
Odes_1.4
Poem by W. H. Auden
proportion of his work). The informality is established syntactically by enjambment—only 13 of the poem's 93 lines are clearly end-stopped. There are few
In_Praise_of_Limestone
1837 English poem by Emily Brontë
seeks to prove the greatness of such a place where "ages never die". With enjambment and without punctuation, Brontë creates the effect that life is transient
Lines_(poem)
Preliminary French exam
counting syllables and vers, considering hiatuses, caesurae, hemistichs, enjambments, and other elements are essential to link the excerpt to a specific genre
Literary commentary in the French baccalaureate
Literary_commentary_in_the_French_baccalaureate
American writer
traditional iambic pentameter, and drift toward pentameter elsewhere. Enjambment is frequent; i.e. the material is often divided into lines at a point
Eleanor_Lerman
Collection of poetry by William Blake
convention, and line-endings so unorthodox as to strain a practice of enjambment already controversial in eighteenth century poetics." Similarly, W. H
Poetical_Sketches
Serbian poet, translator and librarian (1931–2007)
Metastrofe: pesme (Metastrophes: poems), Nolit, Belgrade 1972. Opkoračenja (Enjambments), poetry, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1975. Šuma koja lebdi (Floating Forest)
Srba_Mitrović
1953 poem by Gottfried Benn
nouns in each stanza, the colon used several times to intensify, and the enjambment of the concluding verses. According to Schröder, the result is a rhythmic
Nur_zwei_Dinge
Sonnet by Denis Johnson
Miklitsch observes that Johnson abandons "acoustics…metrics…rhyme and enjambment" in favor of "an obsessive image…in this case, one of the most intimate
The_Incognito_Lounge_(poem)
American poet
consolidated the "polyphonic textures," shifts in diction, and signature enjambments that have become hallmarks of her poetry. Palladium is structured in
Alice_Fulton
Studio album by Polish rapper Taco Hemingway
attempts at technical experiments – accelerations, multi-syllabic rhymes, or enjambment – we still get the impression of encountering monotonous, rap staccato"
Café_Belga
American poet
and in its use of the short line, paratactical structures, colloquial enjambments and stream of consciousness technique. Like Jack Kerouac and other Beat
Ron_Androla
English poet, translator and Calvinist religious figure
for verses 1 and 4, which are each glossed with two poems. The author's enjambment is also similar to Wyatt's. Though the sonnet was not an established form
Anne_Locke
rhyme." However, there is a possible explanation for that – two of the enjambments in the poem (in its beginning and in the middle) "are also completed
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