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Enjambment 

The effect created when one realizes there is not enough space on a paper to finish ones sentence, resulting in words being jammed in, usually by being written very skinny, to compensate
Cecil-"There isn't enough room on this paper to finish my essay, but I don't want to get a new page just to finish this last sentence."
Herbert-"Just start a new page, you will lose marks for enjambment."
Enjambment by CamEB May 11, 2013
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emjambment 

This is a “French” word, now used in English that is referred to when a line in a poem flows into another without any punctuation such as commas,full stops or even seimi colons.
“nettles” by Vernon Scannell has great examples of emjambment

“But in two weeks,the busy sun and rain
Had called up tall recuits behind the shed:”
emjambment by It’s real January 1, 2018