enjambement

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en·jamb·ment

or en·jambe·ment E0149900 (ĕn-jăm′mənt, -jămb′)n. The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.

[French enjambement, from Old French enjamber, to straddle : en-, causative pref.; see en-¹ + jambe, leg; see jamb.]

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enjambement - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pauseenjambmentprosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

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noun the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

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