Question

What is the effect of enjambment in this excerpt from "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning?

That moment she was mine, mine, fair,
Perfectly pure and good: I found
A thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she;





A. It conveys pain.



B. It enhances the shocking effect.



C. It introduces a pause.

Answer 1

The correct Answer would be B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Use the process of elimination. A wouldn't be correct since pain isn't referenced thoroughly and is apart from the point. C would also be incorrect because that would be grammatically incorrect since a pause is introduced through punctuation. So the only answer left is B which would be correct.

Answer 2

B. It enhances the shocking effect.

Step-by-step explanation:

Enjambment is the continuity of a sentence without a pause outside the limits of a line or stanza.

In the excerpt from "Porphyria's Lover," the author Robert Browing makes use of enjambment to cause readers to feel surprised, upset and stunned by the speaker's confession that he killed his lover, Porphyria, by strangling her.