enjambment
/en-jam-muhnt, -jamb-/US // ɛnˈdʒæm mənt, -ˈdʒæmb- //UK // (ɪnˈdʒæmmənt, French ɑ̃ʒɑ̃bmɑ̃) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural en·jamb·ments [en-jam-muhnts, -jamb-]. /ɛnˈdʒæm mənts, -ˈdʒæmb-/. Prosody.
- : the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break: Enjambment is a creative device of long standing, famously used by Homer, Shakespeare, and Eliot, among many other literary luminaries.
Examples
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.
Enjambment, en-jamb′ment, n. in verse, the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of the line.
The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit.
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