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enjambment: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a single construct in poetics Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
enjambment1 CONSTRUCTEnjambmentPRINCETON · RUN-ON

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Poetics

A sentence running past the end of a verse line

In poetics enjambment is the running-over of a syntactic unit from one verse line (or couplet) into the next without a terminal pause, so that the line break falls where grammar does not, in contrast to an end-stopped line where line and sentence close together. The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics and Abrams and Harpham's glossary treat it as a core device of verse rhythm, creating tension between the metrical unit and the sentence and often throwing weight onto the word suspended at the line's edge. The referent is a structural relation between line ending and syntax, read off the arrangement of lines on the page or heard in the delay before the meaning completes.[1][2]

Unit
A single line break that interrupts a continuing syntactic unit
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by marking where a line ends without syntactic closure and the meaning carries into the next line

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References

  1. Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916
  2. Abrams, M. H., & Harpham, G. G. (2015). A glossary of literary terms (11th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781285465067

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