Enjambment is one of the literature terminologies which refers to stepping over or stretching something. Many poets used this way of writing in the late early period to make poems melodious.
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.