Question

Definition and examples of Enjambment.

Answer 1

Hint: Enjambment is a literary term denoting the continuation of a statement or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. It comes from the French and means "to stride over." The reader is taken easily and quickly—without interruption—to the following line of the poem when an enjambed line lacks punctuation at its line break.

Complete answer:
The continuation of a phrase or clause past a line break is known as enjambment. In his poem "The Good-Morrow," for example, the poet John Donne used enjambment when he extends the first phrase beyond the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?

An end-stopped line is the polar opposite of an enjambed line of poetry: a sentence or clause whose end does not fall at the end of a line of poetry.
Because most enjambed lines of poetry won't make complete sense until the reader reads the phrase or sentence on the following line or lines, enjambment encourages the reader to continue reading from one line to the next.

Example:
In Shakespeare's sonnet, four of the first eight lines are enjambed.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
That alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height is taken.

Note: Enjambment is a technique used by poets to add ambiguity or contradiction to a statement that would otherwise be straightforward: the unfinished clause could indicate something that the following line(s) deny. This is especially evident in poetry produced after the 18th century.