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Ripley Posted 22 years ago

Campion

Hi,
I would like to know if the last line of the each stanza in "there is agarden in her face" T. Campion contains a run-on line.

There Cherries grow, which none may buy
Till Cherry ripe themselves do cry.


Each sentence is complete in itself from a syntactical but not from a semantic point of view.
Please, help me.
Ripley.
  

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Hello Ripley In the text of the first edition of Campion's Fourth Booke of Ayres, where this poem appears, there are commas after 'buy/buy/nigh'. I would say that these lines aren't examples of true enjambement. If it had been: 'There Cherries grow which none May buy, till Cherry ripe Themselves doe cry' it would have been enjambement.

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Ripley In the text of the first edition of Campion's Fourth Booke of Ayres, where this poem appears, there are commas after 'buy/buy/nigh'.
  • I would say that these lines aren't examples of true enjambement.
  • If it had been: 'There Cherries grow which none May buy, till Cherry ripe Themselves doe cry' it would have been enjambement.
  • MrP
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Hello Ripley

In the text of the first edition of Campion's Fourth Booke of Ayres, where this poem appears, there are commas after 'buy/buy/nigh'.

I would say that these lines aren't examples of true enjambement.

If it had been:

'There Cherries grow which none
May buy, till Cherry ripe
Themselves doe cry'

it would have been enjambement.
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Thanks a lot.
Ripley.
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