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en⋅jamb⋅ment
[en-jam-muh
nt, -jamb-] 
–noun, plural -ments [-muhnts] . Prosody.
[-muhnts] . Prosody. | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. |
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| en·jamb·ment or en·jambe·ment (ěn-jām'mənt, -jāmb') 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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enjambment
1837, from enjamb (1600), from Fr. enjamber "to stride over," from jambe "leg."
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enjambment
in prosody, the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse. T.S. Eliot used enjambment in the opening lines of his poem The Waste Land:April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers
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