enjambedadj.
/ɒnˈʒɒmd/ Of verse, etc.: exhibiting or characterized by enjambment.
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run-on1874
unstopped1874
enjambed1896
run-over1931
1896 G. Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. ii. 89 [Keats's] sonnets..are written in an extremely fluent and peculiar verse, very much ‘enjambed’ or overlapped.
1909 H. Grierson in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. IV. xi. 206 Hall's couplets are neat and pointed, Marston's more irregular and enjambed.
1980 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. vii. 9/1 Rexroth's prosody is as far from Whitman's as it can get. Perhaps there is a bit of William Carlos Williams in his enjambed lines; maybe Louis Zukofsky.
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adj.1896