enjambement
noun /ɪnˈdʒæmbmənt/
/ɪnˈdʒæmbmənt/
(also enjambment)
[uncountable, countable] (from French, specialist)- the fact of a sentence continuing beyond the end of a line of poetry without a break compare caesuraTopics Literature and writingc2, Languagec2Word Originmid 19th cent.: French, from enjamber ‘stride over, go beyond’, from en- ‘in’ + jambe ‘leg’.