How does enjambment affect the meaning and emotion of a poem?

It excludes certain words, thereby allowing readers to fill in the blanks.

It encourages the reader to pause and emphasize certain words.

It is one of the few poetic techniques to follow the rules of syntax.

It allows the reader to read lines of poetry without having to pause.

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Kyler Lane

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14 December, 17:10

How does enjambment affect the meaning and emotion of a poem?

It excludes certain words, thereby allowing readers to fill in the blanks.

It encourages the reader to pause and emphasize certain words.

It is one of the few poetic techniques to follow the rules of syntax.

It allows the reader to read lines of poetry without having to pause.

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Omar Castro · Answer 1

Enjambment is defined as the running on a from line to line or stanza and into the next, without putting a stop or break on it. Enjambment lines do not have and observe punctuation marks that terminates or stops the line. Enjambment affects the meaning and emotion of a poem for it allows the reader to read lines of poetry without having to pause.