Editing Enjambment (section)

== Examples ==
The start of ''[[The Waste Land]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]], with only lines 4 and 7 end-stopped:
{{Blockquote|<poem>April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.</poem>}}

These lines from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' (''c.'' 1611) are heavily enjambed (meaning enjambment is used):
{{quote|<poem>I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have
That honourable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown.</poem>}}

Meaning flows as the lines progress, and the reader's eye is forced to go on to the next sentence. It can also make the reader feel uncomfortable or the poem feel like [[Train of thought|"flow-of-thought"]] with a sensation of urgency or disorder.  In contrast, the following lines from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (''c.'' 1595) are completely end-stopped:

{{quote|<poem>A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punishèd.</poem>}}

Each line is formally correspondent with a unit of thought—in this case, a clause of a sentence. End-stopping is more frequent in early Shakespeare: as his style developed, the proportion of enjambment in his plays increased. Scholars such as Goswin König and [[A. C. Bradley]] have estimated approximate dates of undated works of Shakespeare by studying the frequency of enjambment.

''[[Endymion (poem)|Endymion]]'' by [[John Keats]], lines 2–4:
{{quote|<poem>Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us...</poem>}}

The song "One Night In Bangkok", from the musical ''[[Chess (musical)|Chess]]'', written by [[Tim Rice]] and [[Björn Ulvaeus]], includes examples such as :

{{quote|<poem>The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha</poem>}}

Closely related to enjambment is the technique of "[[broken rhyme]]" or "split rhyme" which involves the splitting of an individual word, typically to allow a rhyme with one or more syllables of the split word.  In English verse, broken rhyme is used almost exclusively in [[light verse]], such as to form a [[Orange (word)#Rhyme|word that rhymes with "orange"]], as in this example by [[Willard Espy]], in his poem "The Unrhymable Word: Orange":
{{quote|<poem>The four eng-
ineers
Wore orange
brassieres.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Man of my Words: Reflections on the English Language |last=Lederer |first=Richard |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=0-312-31785-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/manofmywordsrefl00lede }}</ref></poem>}}

The [[clapping game]] "[[Miss Susie]]" uses the break "... Hell / -o operator" to allude to the taboo word "[[Hell]]", then replaces it with the innocuous "[[Hello]]".