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enjambment

In poetry, the continuation of a sentence from one line to the next. For example: ‘Full of vexation come I, with complaint/Against my child, my daughter Hermia.’



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With the exception perhaps of wordplay there is nothing controversial about this list; more permissive is the range of rhetorical and structural patterns admitted to the canon in chapter 5, which covers variation, structural interlace, envelope patterns, formulism, enjambement, parataxis, parenthesis, catalogues, anaphora, antithesis, and litotes.
The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry by Fulk, R.D. / Renaissance Quarterly
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