Thursday, November 29, 2018

Do the poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" By William Blake utilize end stop, enjambment, or both, and how does that affect the sound of the poem?

Enjambment is derived from a French word that means to step over. In a poem, enjambment
means to move from one line of verse to another without any kind of end punctuation mark. The
reader is meant to move from one line to the next without a pause. As a general rule, enjambment
will make the poem sound like it has a faster pace/rhythm. This is different from an end-stopped
line of poetry. An end-stopped line will have some kind of punctuation mark that causes a reader
to pause. It could be a colon, semi-colon, period, or comma. Using end-stopped lines will make a
poem sound more regular and methodical.

Both " " and "The
Lamb" use both structures. In "The Tyger," the first line of stanzas...


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