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What is enjambment in poetry?

How is it used in an actual poem?

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barbszeder

Or enjambement is breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase or a sentence) on the end of a line or between two verses. (for ex: "We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." (Shakespeare)

04:15, 25 February 2012

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