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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Enjambment in Notley



 


Here the lines seem enjambed, but are really not, because the line break acts as a punctuation. 

"I dreamed you brought home a baby / Solid girl, could already walk / In blue corduroy overalls/ Nice and strange, baby to keep close / I hadn't thought of it before..."  

So she only needs punctuation in the middle of the lines. There is some true enjambment later in the poem "door / of building."  

The balance between continuity and the integrity of the line is ideal (for my ear).  

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