How To Use Enjambment In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Dramatic use of enjambment brings the movement of the line to a sudden halt.
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Thomson employs enjambment so that his poetry flows as does the river, the entire seventeen-line passage being contained within only three sentences.
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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.
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His lines are percussive, martial, thorough in their report; his enjambments work like arguments against the will of the sentences.
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They center in the words ‘tangent’, ‘quiet’, ‘evidence’, the notable enjambment at the end of the line group, and the deictics ‘Here’ and ‘there’.
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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.
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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’.
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One obvious example of this is the difference between end-stopped lines and lines that exhibit weaker and stronger kinds of enjambment.
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Usually, as I walk, I get ideas for subjects, be they prose poems or poems with some pattern for enjambment.
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Get up, it's night, says this fragment, which then goes on by enjambment to its iambic continuation, ‘There'll be time enough to sleep.’
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They were also asked, gradually, over weeks, to increase the use of enjambment, parataxis, and disassociation, using the same base material.
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With its misty sentiment and odd word enjambment, that first lyric casts its shadow across all 44 minutes of the record.
Going Ape Over Gibbons; But Not Willie's Weak Guests
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There’s regular enjambment, which is part of traditional poetry and is almost always a bad idea, but especially in sonnets—and then there’s what’s known as ultra-extreme enjambment.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Schiff's forms depend (like Marianne Moore's) on interlocking enjambments, on syllabics, and on baroque grammar, or else (unlike Moore's) on dense repetitions derived from Provençal forms.
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Except when he's imitating children's taunts, the lines are uniformly stilted; they could be broken up with more telling enjambments.
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Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
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The lyrics seem to have been written first and then forcibly inserted into songs, resulting in some heavy enjambment.
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So the flaring grandeur gathers, and in one of the most illogical but nevertheless satisfying descriptions, he makes another parallel simile and with the stretching effect of an enjambment, reaches out to crush.
God’s Grandeur « Unknowing
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Both poems are written in free verse and make ready use of what is called enjambment, that is, the abrupt continuation of a sentence from one line into the next.
Deconstructing Obama
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Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment.
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We focussed on the form, on how closely they'd followed the rules of syllable and rhyme, enjambment and stress, and only secondarily on how it worked as a poem.
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The enjambment of ‘un/earthly’ comes across not so much as violent or macabre (as the word unearthly might suggest) but again as hesitation.
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Mr. Mehrotra's cunning deployment of enjambment—the breaking of a phrase or sentence across a poetic line—propels us from one line to the next, re-enacting, in the four-line opening sentence, the way the mind pieces together the meaning of the world from the messages of the senses, before knocking it out with the clean, flat declaration of the line that follows.
When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
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Neither actor used "poetry voice," and both actors honored enjambment and privileged sense over rhythm.
Love Is My Sin
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Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process.
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It reminded me of the concept in poetry of "enjambment" where the implied silence at the ends of lines can be crafted to carry meanings that nuance, augment, or contradict readings that obey the conventions of punctuation.
SWEATblog: Incompleteness
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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.
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Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process.
