Delight

George Hodan

De-light-

Full is the night with

                                               The moon

Shining bright up-

On the hill

A-

Ware are we

Of the Un

Filtered gaze of

That wise old

Man a-

Midst the stars

Building a

Scaf-

Folding right to

The heavens of

Divine

Love

~~

© Carol Campbell 2015

Prompt from: http://dversepoets.com/2015/11/05/lets-get-jambin/#like-11006

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Today at The Bar, I want us to get enamored with enjambment.

Pronounced: (en-JAM-ment)

Officially, (according to poetryarchive.org):
“Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break. If a poet allows all the sentences of a poem to end in the same place as regular line-
breaks, a kind of deadening can happen in the ear, and in the brain too, as all the thoughts can end up being the same length.”

Simply put, enjambment occurs when a phrase carries over a line-break without a major pause. In French, the word means “straddling.” Imagine a word or phrase straddling across the lines or spacing of the poem. Perfect, right? When you read an enjambed line, it encourages you to keep reading without stopping for a breather, as it were.

Particularly with traditional poems, each line was usually its own thought, and rhymes were often predictable and rhythmic (end-stopped).” De Jackson

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