Pros. Also enjambement. [ad. Fr. enjambement, f. enjamber: see prec.] The continuation of a sentence beyond the second line of a couplet.
1837–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., II. V. II. § 54. 216. Du Bartas almost affects the enjambement or continuation of the sense beyond the couplet.
1880. E. Gosse, Eng. Poets, II. 271. Waller was the first English poet to adopt the French fashion of writing in couplets, instead of enjambments.
1881. Saintsbury, Dryden, 17. It [the couplet] was turned by enjambements into something very like rhythmic prose.
