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Enjambment is defined as the running on of thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without using terminating punctuation. Examples are provided from poems by Kilmer and Keats that demonstrate enjambment through continuing the thought or narrative across line breaks without punctuation. A third example shows enjambment in describing sheep grazing with their wool contrasting the green grass.

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Enjambment

Enjambment is defined as the running on of thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without using terminating punctuation. Examples are provided from poems by Kilmer and Keats that demonstrate enjambment through continuing the thought or narrative across line breaks without punctuation. A third example shows enjambment in describing sheep grazing with their wool contrasting the green grass.

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Enjambment

The running on of the thought from one line,


couplet, or stanza without using a
terminating punctuation mark.

1. "I think that I shall never see


A poem as lovely as a tree." Kilmer, "Trees"
2. Or gazing on the new soft-fallen masque
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors John Keats's Bright Star
3. As the sheep grazed
Their white wool contrasting with the green grass.

Kayla Willis
Curmano 7
Adv. Language Arts
13 January 2015
Works Cited

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