noun
or en·jambe·ment -mmənt
( -s )
Etymology: French enjambement, from Middle French, encroachment, from enjamber to encroach, straddle (from en- en- (I) + jambe leg) + -ment — more at jamb
: continuation in prosody of the sense in a phrase beyond the end of a verse or couplet : the running over of a sentence from one line into another so that closely related words fall in different lines — compare run-on