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Enjambment has a long history in poetry. Homer used the technique, and it is the norm for alliterative verse where rhyme is unknown. [9] In the 32nd Psalm of the Hebrew Bible enjambment is unusually conspicuous. [10] It was used extensively in England by Elizabethan poets for dramatic and narrative verses, before giving way to closed couplets.
Shakespeare also used enjambment increasingly often in his verse, and in his last plays was given to using feminine endings (in which the last syllable of the line is unstressed, for instance lines 3 and 6 of the following example); all of this made his later blank verse extremely rich and varied.
Its opposite is enjambment, where the sentence runs on into the next line. According to A. C. Bradley , "a line may be called 'end-stopped' when the sense, as well as the metre, would naturally make one pause at its close; 'run-on' when the mere sense would lead one to pass to the next line without any pause."
enjambment The continuing of a syntactic unit over the end of a line. Enjambment occurs when the sense of the line overflows the meter and line break. [3] entr'acte envoi epanalepsis epic poetry A long poem that narrates the victories and adventures of a hero. Such a poem is often identifiable by its lofty or elegant diction. [11] epic simile ...
Enjambment is a line break in the middle of a sentence, phrase or clause, or one that offers internal (sub)text or rhythmically jars for added emphasis. Alternation between enjambment and end-stopped lines is characteristic of some complex and well composed poetry, such as in Milton's Paradise Lost.
His employment of the form outside drama, his frequent enjambment, and the relative looseness of his metre were very influential, and he became known for the style. The poet Robert Bridges analyzed Milton's versification in the monograph Milton's Prosody .
An example of a feminine caesura is the opening line of the Odyssey: ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, || πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, || polútropon, hòs mála pollà ("Tell me, Muse, of the man || of many wiles, who very much (wandered)")
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.