enjambement

noun
🔊/ɪnˈdʒæmbmənt/
🔊/ɪnˈdʒæmbmənt/
(also enjambment)
[uncountable, countable] (from French, specialist)
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  1. the fact of a sentence continuing beyond the end of a line of poetry without a break (诗句的)跨行compare caesuraTopics Literature and writingc2, Languagec2
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: French, from enjamber ‘stride over, go beyond’, from en- ‘in’ + jambe ‘leg’.