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End-stopped-line

Short Note

By Editors

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  • Domain: Literature.

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A poetic line in which the end of the line coincides with the end of the grammatical unit, usually the sentence. A line without enjambment.

Published 01 November 2001

Citation: Editors. "End-stopped-line". The Literary Encyclopedia. 1 November 2001.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=333, accessed 9 February 2010.]

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