| Complex, enjambed sentences and syntactically sophisticated indirect speech reveal the possibilities open to the poet of written, rather than oral, epic. |
| Spondees are immediately enjambed, of course, but the syllable demotion is harder to intuit when the lines are individuated like this. |
| Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking? |
| It is highly enjambed, since the urgency of its obvious message carries it over from line to line, stanza to stanza. |
