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enjambement
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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.enjambement - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
enjambment
prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
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These adroit enjambments show just how expressive and sure Moore's line arrangements can be.
Poetry Reading by Brennan, Matthew C. / African American Review
There is no Mars without Venus, I decided; the 16 glimpses of greens Valles Marineris offers are Venuses pressing through Martian enjambments of dark, Venuses rising, minus the seashells (and minus the Venuses), from Botticelli's oceans.
Louise Fishman: Valles Marineris, 1992 by Harris, Bertha / Artforum International
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