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enjambment

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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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Rhetorically, Loy's enjambment emphasizes her upper-case formatting of the signifier NOTHING, coupled with the previous line's aposiopesis of emdashes bleeding into the white emptiness of the page.
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