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Definition of Enjambments
1. enjambment [n] - See also: enjambment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enjambments
Literary usage of Enjambments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"... but it is true, as Dryden noted, that Waller was the first English poet to
adopt the French fashion of writing in couplets, instead of enjambments. ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1905)
"It was long before Waller gained a single imitator, and the old system of
enjambments continued in fashion until the Restoration, with its tide of thought ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers edited by Thomas Humphry Ward (1896)
"It was long before Waller gained a single imitator, and the old system of
enjambments continued in fashion until the Restoration, with its tide of thought ..."
4. From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the by Edmund Gosse (1885)
"It has been proposed to pronounce the French word as though it were English,
enjambments, but this is hideous. My friend, Mr Austin Dobson, has proposed to ..."
5. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1906)
"In their poems the decasyllabic couplet regained • some of the regularity and
balance it had lost in the rugged lines and abrupt enjambments which Donne and ..."
6. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Thomas Sergeant Perry (1883)
"At first, it was broken by enjambments ; in Waller's hands it admitted of almost
any prolongation of the sentence. Dryden, too, wrote whole paragraphs in ..."
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