(Enjambment-style poem)
Storm please stop ravaging wherein
Slim huts the vulnerable live in. But wait there’s more!
In poetry, enjambment or enjambement (/ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt/; from the French enjambement [ɑ̃ʒɑ̃bmɑ̃]) is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs-over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.
In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); the tension arises from the “mixed message” produced both by the pause of the line-end, and the suggestion to continue provided by the incomplete meaning. In spite of the apparent contradiction between rhyme, which heightens closure, and enjambment, which delays it, the technique is compatible with rhymed verse. Even in couplets, the closed or heroic couplet was a late development; older is the open couplet, where rhyme and enjambed lines co-exist.
(Enjambment-style poem)
Storm please stop ravaging wherein
Slim huts the vulnerable live in. But wait there’s more!
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