Enjambment

Both poems are written in free verse and make ready use of what is called enjambment, that is, the abrupt continuation of a sentence from one line into the next. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

With its misty sentiment and odd word enjambment, that first lyric casts its shadow across all 44 minutes of the record. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It reminded me of the concept in poetry of "enjambment" where the implied silence at the ends of lines can be crafted to carry meanings that nuance, augment, or contradict readings that obey the conventions of punctuation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There’s regular enjambment, which is part of traditional poetry and is almost always a bad idea, but especially in sonnets—and then there’s what’s known as ultra-extreme enjambment. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)

So the flaring grandeur gathers, and in one of the most illogical but nevertheless satisfying descriptions, he makes another parallel simile and with the stretching effect of an enjambment, reaches out to crush. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Neither actor used "poetry voice," and both actors honored enjambment and privileged sense over rhythm. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

Mr. Mehrotra's cunning deployment of enjambment—the breaking of a phrase or sentence across a poetic line—propels us from one line to the next, re-enacting, in the four-line opening sentence, the way the mind pieces together the meaning of the world from the messages of the senses, before knocking it out with the clean, flat declaration of the line that follows. ❋ Chandrahas Choudhury (2011)

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. ❋ Amy Gerstler (2010)

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?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

The metaphors and the enjambment and the poetic conventions, the words in the book, are really there and the "people" are not. ❋ Flavia (2010)

Whatever you do, it's just an enjambment of your stanza. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their hushed melodic instrumentation pulls you in and pushes you through a current of audio samples, lingering guitar riffs and melodic enjambment (much of which is accompanied by actual samples of the ocean). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jim Murdoch presents Do you break, jam or snip? posted at The Truth About Lies, saying, A discussion of different approaches to enjambment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This stratospheric aegis of inspiration triggers a further heady (and dizzying) syntax of vertical hierarchy and enjambment: ... underneath ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cecil-"There isn't enough room on this paper to finish my [essay], but I don't want to get a new page just to [finish this] last sentence." Herbert-"Just start a new page, you will lose marks for [enjambment]." ❋ CamEB (2013)

Example of Enjambement: "[The bubblegum] covered desks sit in [bundles] of five slowly decaying like a group of dead, rotting corpses in an ugly [unpainted], stinky, giant coffin." ❋ MarcusTheCrazy (2010)