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.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

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.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

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

Going Ape Over Gibbons; But Not Willie's Weak Guests 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.

SWEATblog: Incompleteness 2008

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.

SWEATblog: February 2008 Archives 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.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

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.

THE ANTHOLOGIST 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.

God’s Grandeur « Unknowing 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.

When Mysticism Came Down to Earth Chandrahas Choudhury 2011

Neither actor used "poetry voice," and both actors honored enjambment and privileged sense over rhythm.

Love Is My Sin deliasherman 2010