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What is is the effect of enjambment in poetry?

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it encourages the reader to continue
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Enjambment has the effect of encouraging the reader to continue reading from one line to the next, since most of the time a line of poetry that's enjambed won't make complete sense until the reader finishes the clause or sentence on the following line or lines.

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