Enjambment Flashcards

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What is enjambment

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Enjambment, from the French meaning “a striding over,” is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next

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What is an example of enjambment

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For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem “The Good-Morrow

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