en·jamb·ment or en·jambe·ment ( n-j m m nt, -jmb)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.] |
enjambment, enjambement [ɪnˈdʒæmmənt (French) ɑ̃ʒɑ̃bmɑ̃]
n
(Literature / Poetry) Prosody the running over of a sentence from one line of verse into the next
[from French, literally: a straddling, from enjamber to straddle, from en-1 + jambe leg; see jamb]
enjambed adj
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| Noun | 1. | enjambment - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
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