Question

What effect is achieved by the use of blank verse and enjambment in the poem? Cite evidence from the text to support your response.

Answer 1

Answer:

The use of blank verse and enjambment intensifies the contemplative and meditative mood of the poem. Blank verse allows for freedom of form, enhancing the tone of the poem, which shifts from being hopeful to being hopeless.

The use of enjambment helps hold the reader’s interest across lines:

    To him who in the love of Nature holds

    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

    A various language; for his gayer hours

Explanation:

Plato/Edmentum

Answer 2

Answer:

I dont know what text because you didn't include it

Explanation:

but generically, enjambment is used because it gives structure to the poem, so that it flows when read out loud.