enjambment

The opposite of a caesura, which inserts a pause in the middle of a line, enjambment allows the continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line of a poem to the next line without a pause. This technique allows a poet to emphasize poetic rhythms in a longer sequence of words that might go unnoticed in regular prose. An example would be in the poem "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens. Notice how the following stanza reads continuously like a sentence even though there are line breaks:

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;