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enjambment

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en·jamb·ment or en·jambe·ment  (n-jmmnt, -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.]
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Noun1.enjambment - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
enjambement
prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
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