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The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped. William Carlos Williams’s “Between Walls” is one sentence broken into 10 enjambed lines:

       the back wings
       of the

       hospital where

       will grow lie

       in which shine
       the broken

       pieces of a green

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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