CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -In poetry, enjambment (/ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt/ or /ɪnˈdʒæmmənt/; from the French enjamber) is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning ‘runs over’ or ‘steps over’ from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.

Detailed explanation-2: -Enjambment, from the French meaning “a striding over, ” is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly and swiftly-without interruption-to the next line of the poem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem “The Good-Morrow” when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: “I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?

Detailed explanation-4: -Enjambment builds the drama in a poem. The end of the first line isn’t the end of a thought but rather a cliffhanger, forcing the reader to keep moving forward to find out what happens next. It delivers a resolution in the second line, or the third line, depending on the length of enjambment.

Detailed explanation-5: -Example #4: Endymion (By John Keats) Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. This opening section of Endymion is a well-known example of using enjambment. The first and last lines are the only lines that use end marks, while all the middle lines are enjambed.