enjambment
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(noun) the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines
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enjambment
stuff like line breaks, enjambment, formal rhyme- or metrical schemes, etc
on the definition of a prose poem (i.e., based on what it lacks)
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7 years, 6 months ago
In poetry, this failure to stop at the end of the line, this challenge to metrical closure, this desire to get more in, is called enjambment.
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