enjambment / ɛnˈdʒæm mənt, -ˈdʒæmb- /

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enjambment 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural en·jamb·ments [en-jam-muhnts, -jamb-]. /ɛnˈdʒæm mənts, -ˈdʒæmb-/. Prosody.

  1. the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break: Enjambment is a creative device of long standing, famously used by Homer, Shakespeare, and Eliot, among many other literary luminaries.

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  1. Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
  2. Enjambment, en-jamb′ment, n. in verse, the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of the line.
  3. The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit.