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enjambment Pros.|ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt, ɑ̃ʒɑ̃bmɑ̃|
Also enjambement.
[ad. Fr. enjambement, f. enjamber: see enjamb v.]
The continuation of a sentence beyond the second line of a couplet. Now also applied less restrictedly to the carrying over of a sentence from one line to the next.
1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. v. ii. §54. 216 Du Bartas almost affects the enjambement or continuation of the sense beyond the couplet. 1880E. Gosse Eng. Poets II. 271 Waller was the first English poet to adopt the French fashion of writing in couplets, instead of enjambments. 1881Saintsbury Dryden 17 It [the couplet] was turned by enjambements into something very like rhythmic prose. 1929Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. LX. 202, I use the term enjambement by itself in its largest sense, that of the running over of the sentence from one line to another. The word is often used by writers on prosody with the narrower force which it originally had, that of the running over of a group of closely joined words. |