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	Enjambment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enjambment (also spelled "enjambement") is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses.
		Enjambment creates a feeling of acceleration, as the reader is forced to continue reading after the line has ended.
		End-stopping is more frequent in early Shakespeare: as his style developed, the proportion of enjambment in his plays increased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enjambment (488 words)

	Performance of Enjambments
		It claims that in an enjambment the performer may convey both the verse line boundary and the run-on sentence as perceptual units, however strained, by having recourse to conflicting phonetic cues: cues of continuity and discontinuity simultaneously.
		I collected responses to these two performances from a wide range of listeners, who were unanimous in their judgment that in one of the two readings, but not in the other one, both the verse line and the run-on sentence are perceived as perceptual units.
		Enjambment is an obvious instance in which linguistic units and versification conflict.
	www.tau.ac.il /~tsurxx/Doctored_enjambments.html (3947 words)

	Mike Snider's Formal Blog and Sonnetarium
		Enjambment — running on the sense of a line past its ending and into the next line — is likewise a useful tool but, even more than the caesura, tends to weaken the perceived unity of the line.
		There are certainly degrees of enjambment, some of which still allow a slight pause or other clear marker of the line's end, but Samuel Johnson was right when he said that it was difficult to read Paradise Lost in such a way as to enable listeners to hear the beginnings and endings of lines.
		In the pure second case, excessively end-stopped free verse is rhythmically flat: enjambment is all there is to produce a rhythm different from that of prose, and it doesn't work if the reader doesn't pause at the end of the line just because it is the end of the line.
	www.mikesnider.org /formalblog/2004/12/11.html (761 words)

	Henkel: Provocative Enjambment in Vergil's Aeneid
		I wish, instead, to consider enjambment in the Aeneid as a deliberate trope, the use of which is in part responsible for the ambiguity that characterizes Vergil's style.
		By terming Vergil's enjambment provocative, I mean to assert that his use of the trope is widespread and often exploitative (cf.
		Vergil routinely uses enjambment to lend emphasis to the first position of the line, and he frequently exploits this emphasis to wrench from a line or paragraph some difficult or unexpected sense.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2006/abstracts/henkel.html (553 words)

	On "Spring and All"
		But paradoxically, the enjambment also emphasizes the fact that each line is an individual structural unit shaped to reinforce the dynamic process of sensory and intellective apprehension rather than the syntactic organization of the sentence.
		Williams' line is shorter, tenser, more nervous; the enjambment cuts and splices the grammatical elements of the sentence, using the highlighting at the beginning and end of the verse to focus on the discrete but related elements of the re-created scene.
		Enjambment imbues "blue" with a nominal substance that lingers on after "blueness" is conditioned by an overcast sky; but it is another type of wrenching that takes place in the clouds that appear in line 3.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/williams/spring.htm (5613 words)

	Learn more about Poetry in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This technique is called enjambment, and is used to create a sense of expectation in the reader and/or to add a dynamic to the movement of the verse.
		Couplets, stanzas, and strophes are generally self-contained units of sense, although a kind of enjambment may also be used across these units.
		In blank verse, verse paragraphs are employed to indicate natural breaks in the flow of the poem.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/poetry_1.html (1146 words)

	enjambment
		"Enjambment" comes from a French word meaning to put one's leg across, or to step over, just as the sense of the line steps over the end of the line.
		It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity.
		Enjambment is particularly good for creating a feel of naturalistic motion in verse; after all, when you speak, you don't pause after every five stresses, do you?
	www.haverford.edu /engl/chaucer/assignments/enjambment.htm (661 words)

	Goblin Mercantile Exchange »
		enjambment is evident and i feel that he uses this to enhance the mood and atmosphere of the poem
		enjambment is the termination of a line at a point other than at the end of a phrase; it tends to increase the feeling of conversation
		enjambment is here considered a metrical device which is the verbal counterpart of the snakelike figure described by the movement of the army in altdorfer�s
	www.goblinmercantileexchange.com /?p=81 (567 words)

	INTRA - Interactive Tutorial on Rhythm Analysis
		He achieves this effect through ENJAMBMENT which occurs when the line end is not coincident with the syntax and the thought runs over into the next line.
		One of the most important effects of enjambment is to make the reader aware of the multiple domains of experience and thought to which the poem can simultaneously make us attend.
		Thus, enjambment makes us look both forwards and backwards in the poem, anticipating prospectively a line ending as well as retrospectively, hearing a just read phrase as initiating a thought whose incompleteness may only gradually become apparent.
	academic.reed.edu /english/intra/4.4.html (948 words)

	Mike Snider's Formal Blog and Sonnetarium
		But putting the noun and a lone verb in one line and the rest of the predicate in the next is pretty strong enjambment.
		Nor am I much concerned with rhyme for now, but rather with the fact that there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines begin or end because of [t]he variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse.
		Friends, we're talking enjambment and its obverse, the caesura, how they work in different ways in metrical and non-metrical verse, and how the dominance of non-metrical practice has obscured their function in metrical practice, even for some very sophisticated readers.
	radio.weblogs.com /0113501/2004/12/index.html (3400 words)

	Unit 1
		This is why I don’t want you worry about line breaks when you’re first drafting; this is also why I don’t want you to center your poem lines – it is really hard to learn how to correctly break the line when all the lines are centered.
		Using enjambment keeps the poem from being a series of monotonous line after line of image or phrasing.
		Enjambment also moves the poem by making the lines flow more smoothly.
	www.austincc.edu /dbarnett/unit1.htm (2741 words)

	LiteratureForums.net - please help me please (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Well, there is a lot of enjambment in the poem...I'm sure that could add to the poem.
		FYI, enjambment is when a line ends in the middle of a sentence.
		Another way of 'defining' enjambment would be to say that the lines "roll" onto or into one another...kind of like waves do.
	www.literatureforums.net /vb3/printthread.php?t=3416 (400 words)

	Jonson's Cary/Morison Ode
		Enjambments make for interesting poetry in a number of ways.
		At other times, enjambment creates a momentary ambiguity with telling implications, where the words in the first line mean one thing when severed from their continuation and another when joined to it.
		A famous example of such an enjambment is from Shakespeare's sonnet 116: "love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds." The more awkward or unnatural the breaking-point, the stronger the enjambment.
	people.whitman.edu /~dipasqtm/ode.htm (654 words)

	Museeker's Map ~ A Poet's Guide to Traditional Form and Style
		Enjambment is no different than metaphor, simile, rhyme, hyperbole, or any other technique that a writer uses to achieve his/her fundamental purpose, which is self-expression.
		I would be especially wary of the hazards of feeling obliged to master any poetic device--at risk is the danger of emphasizing technique over content, which is to be avoided at all costs.
		No law (written or un-) that mandates any or a certain number of literary devices in a piece of writing; they are designed to enrich and fortify--but they're not an end in themselves.
	tenderbytes.net /rhymeworld/feeder/teacher/museeker.htm (1731 words)

	Sasha Wilson's Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His discussion of this word splicing is particularly interesting as he writes, "Whereas we usually think of a single word as the basic unit of both the sentence and the line, the division of this unit into smaller units dramatizes the building of words out of subverbal blocks of meaning" (26).
		For example, at the end of his discussion of enjambment, he shows how in the poem "The Right of Way," "pleasure also comes with the imaginative suspense of crossing a line boundary and seeing a one-legged girls bcome a girl with two legs, one on either side of a balcony rail" (50).
		Here, he poignantly points out, "She is the emblem of enjambment, the straddler, the local genius of the line ending who invests it with meaning, while linking one line with the next" (50).
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enam312/enam712/wilson2.html (1239 words)

	Term Paper on "The Silo" Long Essay
		The ideas within the poem are reinforced through the use of enjambment in the poetic structure.
		He also strengthens the meaning of the poem through the structure of the poem, and the use of such things as enjambment.
		The Silo by John Kinsella is a poem set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and addresses some of the issues raised in many of Kinsella's other poems.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/The_Silo_Long_Essay-169811.html (188 words)

	The poetry of Homer's ODYSSEY rough draft: tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is still legitimate to discuss enjambment and punctuation in your papers.
		Enjambment is something that only occurs in poetry
		It is possible that the enjambment would be more obvious if the poem were
	hometown.aol.com /mrfrancise6/ODYtips.html (473 words)

	Heroic couplet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The form was immensely popular in the 18th century.
		The looser type of couplet, with occasional enjambment, was one of the standard verse forms in medieval narrative poetry, largely because of the influence of the Canterbury Tales.
		English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heroic_couplet (340 words)

	enjambment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The theoretical concept I chose to represent is that of enjambment.
		The picture I used was a jar of jam with the ingredients reading mint andimplying that it is mint jam.
		This was created using an internet picture of jam and using Photoshop to manipulate the picture to have mint in the ingredients.
	www.users.muohio.edu /pellkd/TEST1.html (113 words)

	Egoless Theory Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The third and perhaps most interesting use of enjambment is to create "misdirection"; the first line means one thing until we see this meaning change in the next line.
		Note that the writer is using the pause after "mantle" instead of a comma; this is a rather common ploy in poems (like this one) that have no punctuation.
		Novices might be well advised to read poems with a view towards discerning why expert poets break their lines where they do.
	www.firesides.net /cgi-bin/eparticles.pl?Answer=3Y1Z1 (389 words)

	EDSITEment Lesson - Printer Friendly
		Perhaps to her dismay as a voluminous, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Gwendolyn Brooks is best known for her short but far-reaching poem "We Real Cool." The poem's beauty, strength, and power are rooted in its effective use of line breaks.
		In this lesson, students will closely analyze the poem's line breaks and the effect of enjambment on their reading and interpretation of the poem.
		Perhaps the best way for students to understand the impact of the poem's line breaks is to reconfigure the poem and disrupt the use of enjambment.
	edsitement.neh.gov /printable_lesson_plan.asp?id=651 (1559 words)

	ee cummings, EE Cummings Poems, Welcome E. E. Cummings Poetry Webpage... Collection of ee cummings poetry is here for ...
		He later divorced her to marry model and actress Marion Morehouse, with whom he remained married until his death in 1962.
		Perhaps a more commonly used form of poetic device is called enjambment, or the running-on of a sentence from one line to the next.
		use enjambment, but he uses it so freely that one sentence might be the entire poem, and might take up fifteen lines with nine words.
	www.akoot.com /eecummings.html (443 words)

	need definition: enjambment - Absolute Write Water Cooler
		I don't know what enjambment is. Need to know so I can fix it.
		It's the poetry equivalent of the run-on sentence, a unit of the poem (a line) continuing for more than one printed line and pulling the reader's eye along with it.
		William: That was like taking a flash class on enjambment and end-stopping.
	www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=25795 (378 words)

	Devices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The effect is called "enjambment." When you do not observe enjambment, sometimes the poem says something ridiculous.
		Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, and you would be surprised how few of them use enjambment.
		The French like it when it breaks up their beloved Alexandrine lines (twelve syllable line), as 6 + 6, or 2 + 4, or 4 + 2.
	www.stedwards.edu /hum/klawitter/poetics/devices.html (730 words)

	Enjambment and Endstopped Lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Enjambment" comes from a French word meaning to put one's leg across, or to step over, just as the sense of the line steps over the end of the line.
		The holy time is quiet as a Nun
		In this case, the first line is endstopped, while line 2 appears to be complete, but is expanded in a slightly unexpected way by the enjambment.
	webpages.charter.net /classicpoetry/enjambment.htm (218 words)

	BookRags: Fading Light Study Guide
		Creeley has enlisted the banner of plain speech and straightforward expression.
		The poet makes extensive use of the device of enjambment in this poem.
		Enjambment is the technique of continuing the sense of a line forward into the.....
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-fadin/style.html (196 words)

	LitGloss - E
		Enjambment In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
		The transition between the first two lines of Wordsworth's poem "My Heart Leaps Up" demonstrates enjambment:
		Epic A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_e.html (360 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Enjambment Challenge
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