LINEBREAK

Line break

A line break in poetry is the termination of the line of a poem, and the beginning of a new line; within the standard conventions of Western literature, this is usually but not always at the left margin. Line breaks may occur mid-clause, creating enjambment, a term that literally means 'to straddle'. Enjambment "tend1 to increase the pace of the poem", whereas end-stopped lines, which are lines that break on caesuras, emphasize these silences and slow the poem down. Line breaks may also serve to signal a change of movement or to suppress or highlight certain internal features of the poem, such as a rhyme or slant rhyme.

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line break

Noun

  1. A point in writing where text that would normally continue on the same line starts at the beginning of a new line.
  2. A character indicating that subsequent characters should appear on a separate line of text; newline, line feed.
  3. a break made through the opposition's defensive line


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