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Enjambment
Poetic Terminology
 Enjambment is a poetic term originated from French which
means "step over''.
 In this poetic device, a writer continues after writing first line. It
carries lines without the disruption of punctuation at its line break or
pause so that a reader reads poetry without any confusion.
 There are many great poets used this literary device in their poems
to make them melodious. For example; Gwendolyn Brooks-We Real
Cool, John Donne- The Good Marrow.
• The Good Marrow by John Donne
 I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
 Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
 In this stanza, the writer open the second line without
breaking the continuity.
We Real Cool
 It is written by Gwendolyn Brook in 1959.
 We real cool. We
 Left school.
 We lurk late. We
 Strike straight. We
 Sing sin. We
 Thin gin. We
 Jazz june. We
 Die soon.
 If you closely look at the poem, you can see a period or pause "." however,
these pause are oftenly calls caesura. There is no natural pause
or cancellation.

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Enjambment.pptx

  • 2.  Enjambment is a poetic term originated from French which means "step over''.  In this poetic device, a writer continues after writing first line. It carries lines without the disruption of punctuation at its line break or pause so that a reader reads poetry without any confusion.  There are many great poets used this literary device in their poems to make them melodious. For example; Gwendolyn Brooks-We Real Cool, John Donne- The Good Marrow.
  • 3. • The Good Marrow by John Donne  I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I  Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?  In this stanza, the writer open the second line without breaking the continuity.
  • 4. We Real Cool  It is written by Gwendolyn Brook in 1959.  We real cool. We  Left school.  We lurk late. We  Strike straight. We  Sing sin. We  Thin gin. We  Jazz june. We  Die soon.  If you closely look at the poem, you can see a period or pause "." however, these pause are oftenly calls caesura. There is no natural pause or cancellation.