enjambment, [en-jam-muh nt, -jamb-] noun,
- Prosody. the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
ORIGIN: Enjambment is a term in rhetoric and poetry with the same meaning as “run-on (line).” The French noun derives from the verb enjamber “to stride over, encroach,” a derivative of jambe “leg.” Jambe is the normal French development of Late Latin gamba “(horse’s) hoof, leg,” used in a treatise on veterinary medicine of the 5th century. Enjambment entered English in the 19th century.
IRLYBITSTTY
- i really like you but i'm too scared to tell you person
1: hey IRLYBITSTTY person
2: oh what? person
1: oh nothing :)
History
- Saint Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred of England ordered the murder of all Danes in his country (1002)
- death & taxes: Benjamin Franklin listed life's two certainties in a letter (1789)
- Holland Tunnel: the world's first long, mechanically-ventilated, underwater tunnel opened between New York and New Jersey (1927)
- Fantasia: animated musical Disney film premiered (1940)
- Bhola cyclone: the 20th century's greatest natural disaster killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh (1970 )
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "the Wall," designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC (1982)
- Edwin Booth 1833
- Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
- Louis Brandeis 1856
- Alexander Scourby 1913
- Nathaniel Benchley 1915
- Jack Elam 1916
- Oskar Werner 1922
- Clyde McPhatter (Drifters) 1933
- Joonas Kokkonen 1921
- Madeleine Sherwood 1922
- Linda Christian 1924
- Richard Mulligan 1932
- Garry Marshall 1934
- Jean Seberg 1938
- Dack (Norman) Rambo 1941
- Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946
- Joe Mantegna 1947
- Whoopi Goldberg 1949
- Chris Noth 1957
- Tracy Scoggins 1959
- Caroline Goodall 1959
- Vinny Testaverde 1963
- Walter Kibby (Fishbone) 1964
- Jimmy Kimmel 1967
- Steve Zahn 1968
- Gerard Butler 1969 (The 300 Guy)
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