enjambement

l'enjambement (FR N-M) run-on line. In French poetry, especially the alexandrine, the carrying over of a phrase or sentence into the first few words of the next line, thereby separating words of closely related meaning. Term first used in this sense in 1680. Enjambement was frowned upon in more conservative, classical eras in French poetry, and poetry in other languages as well. Victor Hugo emancipated and made full use of it again in the 19th century, both in his poetry and his dramas (also…