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DISCUSSION: The Use of Enjambment in Poetry There are two types of poetic line breaks -- end-stopped and enjambed. When the line break comes at the end of a phrase, sentence, or clause, the line is end-stopped. End-stopped lines often end with punctuation like periods, commas, semi-colons, colons, and dashes. The definition of “enjambment” in French is “to step over.” In poetry, this means that a thought “steps over” the end of a line and into the beginning of the next line, with no punctuation, so that the reader must read through the line break without pause in order to reach the conclusion of the thought. Many poems end lines with the natural pause at the end of a phrase or with punctuation as end-stopped lines, but enjambment ends a line in the middle of a phrase, allowing it to continue onto the next line. Enjambment allows for flow and energy to enter a poem in a more dynamic way than it would if simply end-stopped. Enjambment also allows lines to move more quickly as the eye hops to the next line to follow the thought or meaning of the poem. End-stopped lines can feel relaxed, expected, and direct; enjambed lines can feel more surprising, flowing, or fast. Choosing different lineation can help better communicate a poem’s overall mood by the way lines are broken in poems. Most poets use a variety of lineation patterns. ><><><><><>< Examples of poetry with enjambment:  https://poets.org/poem/vernal-equinox https://www.poemtree.com/poems/TimeToTalk.htm https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-w... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow><><><><><>< Take a look at some of your poems. Try rewriting one by changing the lineation pattern to include enjambment in order to change the flow of your ideas. |
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