With its misty sentiment and odd word enjambment, that first lyric casts its shadow across all 44 minutes of the record. From Wordnik.com. [Going Ape Over Gibbons; But Not Willie's Weak Guests] Reference
Whatever you do, it's just an enjambment of your stanza. From Wordnik.com. [The Blocked Toxin] Reference
Rhyme, meter, texture, and enjambment only emphasize the physical aspects of the work. From Wordnik.com. [Paragraphs On Conceptual Writing : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
To Bresson, add Creeley (a Robert to a Robert, as shown by the witty enjambment of lines one and two). From Wordnik.com. [Vitro Nasu » 2005 » April] Reference
Neither actor used "poetry voice," and both actors honored enjambment and privileged sense over rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Love Is My Sin] Reference
I am particularly sorry that Mr. Raffel finds "a TLS condescension" in my comment on a peculiar enjambment he uses. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf in America] Reference
Genre: Found poem - a found poem being a non-poetic text that is transformed by use of enjambment and whatnot into a poem. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: The Maybe Mood] Reference
The metaphors and the enjambment and the poetic conventions, the words in the book, are really there and the "people" are not. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
This stratospheric aegis of inspiration triggers a further heady (and dizzying) syntax of vertical hierarchy and enjambment: ... underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Jim Murdoch presents Do you break, jam or snip? posted at The Truth About Lies, saying, A discussion of different approaches to enjambment. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Carnival – July 2008 « Write Anything] Reference
In poetry that employs enjambment, the poet has attended to the spaces between lines and found opportunities for meaning to accrue in those spaces. From Wordnik.com. [SWEATblog: Incompleteness] Reference
The desert seems to soak away all my verses and metrics, my enjambment and rhyme, leaving me with the dusty stories of my youth and those of a dying town. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas story 1] Reference
In the case of verse, you want to think about enjambment and end-stopping, rhyme and how strong it is, rhythm, aspects such as alliteration, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Explications] Reference
What goes without saying is here a saying that barely needs phonemic channeling around the windy enjambment: "O Wind,/If winter comes, can spring be far behind?". From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
O-verflowing, to the drama of enjambment — "the Vale profound/Is overflowing with the sound" — to the way the rhyme of profound into sound arrives on the metrics that pace the overflow. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
He disapproves of free verse, distrusts the “ultra-extreme enjambment” that you find in William Carlos Williams or Charles Olson, and argues that “iambic pentameter” is something of a hoax. From Wordnik.com. [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference
This kind of sentiment is entertaining, if not deep, despite subtleties such as the lack of punctuation after “before” – the last word of the poem – suggesting a continuing enjambment with the city. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Garrison Finds Poetry at the Intersection of Work and Motherhood « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
He'll warn us about the perils of ultra-extreme enjambment. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The heavy enjambment in the beginning creates a tentative feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Notice the enjambment, i.e., the overflow of this verse into the next. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
I think about the words at the end of my lines, the sound, the air, the enjambment or not. From Wordnik.com. [Via Negativa] Reference
Anytime ... one of those French troubador poets used enjambment, they flung a slice of ham at him. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
In this stanza the poet uses enjambment (the running through of ideas from one line to another without a stop) as is evident by the fact that the whole stanza is of only one sentence. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Later in the paragraph enjambment is used by the poet and he shows how the child does not appreciate the action taken by his father for his wrong doing and takes the punishment too personally. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
For me, how the poem appears on the page, and how words meet the eye and silent ear, and the rhythm of the lines and line-breaks (enjambment) in free verse (but not so free) are instinctual in me. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot] Reference
enjambment does cutting around the feathered edged cup. From Wordnik.com. [TaKinG thE BriM_ TooK thE BrOoM_] Reference
"the nineteenth/century" (whose very enjambment conveys its being reduced to pieces of itself) more archaic than the. From Wordnik.com. [Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics] Reference
Time being physically reconstituted space, the enjambment forces a constant shuffle between history and geography, until, with any luck at all, there’s no divide between the two – just like real life. From Wordnik.com. [Vanessa Place, Round One] Reference
For by an entirely unscripted and strictly phonemic enjambment, the closural "as we!" — so abrupt and lumpen on the page — yields to the melancholy "He too upon a wintry clime/Had fallen" (ll. 42-43, with. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Or perhaps a counter-enjambment. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic payoff] Reference
Lucy Snyder: How do you convey enjambment, then?. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Writing Poetry « Coyote Con] Reference
Anytime ... one of those French troubador poets used enjambment, they flung a slice of ham at him. ". From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
"Response to enjambment is one in ten.". From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
Note the use of enjambment as misdirection. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
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