enjambment

How To Use enjambment In A Sentence

• She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
• One of his methods of conveying this celerity is an increasing use of enjambment, and his admission that he translated the cantos roughly in order allows readers to witness the growing importance of capturing these quick rhythms.
• Dramatic use of enjambment brings the movement of the line to a sudden halt.
• Thomson employs enjambment so that his poetry flows as does the river, the entire seventeen-line passage being contained within only three sentences.
• You know, it's seductive-having written a number of poems now in which the elasticity of the sentence is paramount, as opposed to the usual blend of enjambments and end-stops.
• His lines are percussive, martial, thorough in their report; his enjambments work like arguments against the will of the sentences.
• They center in the words ‘tangent’, ‘quiet’, ‘evidence’, the notable enjambment at the end of the line group, and the deictics ‘Here’ and ‘there’.
• Chief among these was enjambment, in all its kinds and degrees: phrases and clauses splay, leap or crawl across line and stanza breaks, in deliberate violation of natural pauses and syntactic boundaries.
• The enjambment of lines 12 to 13, successful in its matching the sense, introduces a further rhythmic variation due to the unusual length of the vowel in ‘over-poise’.
• One obvious example of this is the difference between end-stopped lines and lines that exhibit weaker and stronger kinds of enjambment.