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 enjambment
Enjambment is particularly good for creating a feel of naturalistic motion in verse; after all, when you speak, you don't pause after every five stresses, do you?
Here are a few lines from Keats' Endymion (a poem, like Chaucer's, in iambic pentameter rhyming couplets) which demonstrate how enjambment works:
What effect does enjambment have upon the motion of the verse?
http://www.haverford.edu/engl/chaucer/assignments/enjambment.htm

  
 enjambment
The picture I used was a jar of jam with the ingredients reading mint andimplying that it is mint jam.
These two words, mint and jam, put together through the image create jam and mint or in the jam there ismint, meaning enjambment.
This was created using an internet picture of jam and using Photoshop to manipulate the picture to have mint in the ingredients.
http://www.users.muohio.edu/pellkd/TEST1.html

  
 Ptarmigan
enjambment is the continuation of a thought or a sentence from one line of poetry to the next one without a pause
enjambment is one of the resources available to poets in english *blank verse
enjambment is also used throughout the poem to off set the rhyme scheme to therefore give a sense of natural speech
http://ptarmigan.blogspot.com/2003_01_01_ptarmigan_archive.html

  
 Performance of Enjambments
This paper offers further empirical evidence in favour of my conception of poetic rhythm and performance as presented in my book Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance -- An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics.
The sentence is run on from one verse line to the other.
This he did without having heard of my work before.
http://www.tau.ac.il/~tsurxx/Doctored_enjambments.html

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - enjambment
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Sometimes, as in the example, the sense of the first line of a couplet runs over to the succeeding line; this is termed enjambment.
http://encarta.msn.com/enjambment.html

  
 Wordcarvers: Jamming about Enjambment
Another good enjambment where the first line is a complete image.
My favorite poetry glossary over at Bob's Byway defines enjambment this way:
How does a person use enjambment effectively in free verse?
http://www.eosdev.com/discus/messages/3/182.html

  
 Poetry Learning Center from Passions in Poetry - Learn to write better poetry
Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who publish their own chap books, then sell than at poetry readings - and make a fairly decent living doing so.
This book includes a comprehensive list of 284 topics, covering everything from simple meter and enjambment to villanelles and pantoums.
But it's far more than just a list or dry dictionary.
http://www.netpoets.com/learning/

  
 Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This technique is called enjambment, and is used to create a sense of expectation in the reader and/or to add a dynamic to the movement of the verse.
In blank verse, verse paragraphs are employed to indicate natural breaks in the flow of the poem.
Couplets, stanzas, and strophes are generally self-contained units of sense, although a kind of enjambment may also be used across these units.
http://phatnav.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Poetry

  
 Encyclopedia4U - Enjambment - Encyclopedia Article
Enjambment is the opposite of end stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with the line length.
Enjambment is when a linguistic unit (phrase or sentence) in poetry runs over the line break.
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/e/enjambment.html

  
 Search Results for enjambment - Encyclopædia Britannica
At the end of August 1871, on the advice of a literary friend in Charleville, Rimbaud sent to the poet Paul Verlaine samples of his new poetry.
T.S. Eliot used enjambment in the opening lines of his poem The Waste Land:
Expand your search on enjambment with these databases:
http://www.britannica.com/search?query=enjambment&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT

  
 Enjambment - Ruv.net Infopedia Encyclopedia Information Portal
In poetry an enjambment is a run on from the end of one line to the next in a couplet.
The end of the line may be viewed as a logical pause (the time to take a breath perhaps).
http://ruv.net/infopedia/ej/Ejambment.html

  
 Merriam-Webster Online
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 Enjambement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is in contrast with end stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with the line length.
Enjambment is the breaking of a linguistic unit (phrase, clause or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses.
Meaning flows from line to line, and the reader's eye is pulled forward.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment

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