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 language, but which theorists ought to guard against mistaking for a reality. From Wordnik.com. [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference
Mr. Bateson's discussion of my use of enjambement could have come straight out of a TLS condescension to almost any good American poet. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf in America] Reference
John Wesley caught this trick of enjambement from Prior, and his hymns abound with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations] Reference
Even when I use enjambement -- the continuation of a line or sentence across lines or stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
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