A question about rhyme form

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Is a broken rhyme (defined here by Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Rhyme ) also a form of enjambment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment ) - just an enjambment involving the use of a small grammtical unit, a word element?

Stu Who's Jazz Doxy, Monday, 24 April 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

wikipedia's definition: "the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses" is fairly odd - I never thought of enjambment as a breaking but as a continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.

i doubt whether that observation has any direct relevance to your question.

Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

if you look at the purposes of enjambment and broken rhyme i guess you could say that they seem contradictory - one makes the verse seem closer to speech by overflowing the form whereas the other is more of a conscious signifier of literariness.

Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)


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