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n. - The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause.

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  • Labor produces, capital has value: and when, by a sort of ellipsis, we say the value of labor, we make an enjambement which is not at all contrary to the rules of...
  • Mr. Bateson's discussion of my use of enjambement could have come straight out of a TLS condescension to almost any good American poet.
  • John Wesley caught this trick of enjambement from Prior, and his hymns abound with it.
  • Even when I use enjambement -- the continuation of a line or sentence across lines or stanzas
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