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Definition of end-stopped in English: end-stoppedadjective (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line. Example sentencesExamples - One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme.
- Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
- Where the line is end-stopped by punctuation, the next line frequently begins with a conjunction, and the meaning flows on.
- Thus, the elastic sentence of the Dead Man poems offers plenty of variety even though every line is end-stopped.
- She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
- All eight lines of the poem are end-stopped, but the two that are not punctuated exploit the pauses.
- Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
Definition of end-stopped in US English: end-stoppedadjectiveˈendstäpt (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line. Example sentencesExamples - One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme.
- All eight lines of the poem are end-stopped, but the two that are not punctuated exploit the pauses.
- Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
- Where the line is end-stopped by punctuation, the next line frequently begins with a conjunction, and the meaning flows on.
- Thus, the elastic sentence of the Dead Man poems offers plenty of variety even though every line is end-stopped.
- She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
- Some poems play frequently enjambed lines against end-stopped stanzas; others build up successively stronger enjambments in order to emphasise one big stop.
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