enjambmentn.
/ɛnˈdʒambmənt/ Prosody.
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.
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1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 299 Du Bartas almost affects the enjambement, or continuation of the sense beyond the couplet.
1880 E. Gosse Eng. Poets II. 271 Waller was the first English poet to adopt the French fashion of writing in couplets, instead of enjambments.
1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden 17 It [the couplet] was turned by enjambements into something very like rhythmic prose.
1929 Trans. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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