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How to use enjambment in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word enjambment? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
One obvious example of this is the difference between end-stopped lines and lines that exhibit weaker and stronger kinds of enjambment.
The lyrics seem to have been written first and then forcibly inserted into songs, resulting in some heavy enjambment.
Usually, as I walk, I get ideas for subjects, be they prose poems or poems with some pattern for enjambment.
Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process.
Consisting of a scant 17 lines, only 3 of which contain more than 3 words, the poem displays her penchant for brevity and enjambment.
They were also asked, gradually, over weeks, to increase the use of enjambment, parataxis, and disassociation, using the same base material.
Dramatic use of enjambment brings the movement of the line to a sudden halt.
Thomson employs enjambment so that his poetry flows as does the river, the entire seventeen-line passage being contained within only three sentences.
We focussed on the form, on how closely they'd followed the rules of syllable and rhyme, enjambment and stress, and only secondarily on how it worked as a poem.
Even for the reader who can't tell an enjambment from a door jamb, this book's remarks about writing are valuable.
Among other things, Mitchell doesn't make the mistake of weakening the first line by carrying it over to the next — an enjambment that isn't in the Greek.
A pounding rhythm drives the poem forward through enjambment across the verses, with internal rhymes and excited repetitions mounting on alliteration as with the swell of the envisioned sea.
Dryden's solution was a closed couplet in iambic pentameter that would have a minimum of enjambment.
Examples from Classical Literature
Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.
The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit.
Although both translators make use of rhyming couplets of decasyllabic lines, Wayne makes no use of enjambment, preferring every line to be end-stopped.
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