The effects of enjambment

Enjambment can rush the reader along to finish the sentence. It can give pause. It can be disruptive. It can end in a sensible place only to continue and deliver more meaning to the previous line, as in “a red wheel / barrow.”1

  1. A Poetry Handbook pg. 75 ↩

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