Omission & Flow
Enjambment
A verse line that ends before its sentence does, pushing the reader across the break. For a moment the line means one thing alone and another once continued, and the carried-over word lands with momentum.
"April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land…" — Eliot
Don't confuse it with. An end-stopped line completes its grammar at the break. Caesura is a pause *inside* the line, not at its edge.
In the Reader — 12 excerpts
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
I sing the body electric,
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
Let us go then, you and I,
And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees
We real cool. We Left school. We
Travels with
Devices that share a passage with enjambment most often — company reveals character.
Anaphora 7 Metaphor 6 Polysyndeton 4 Parallelism 3 Chiasmus 3 Catachresis 3 Polyptoton 3