unset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night. It is a real chill out, The genuine thing. I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer Because sun stays and birds continue to sing. It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone. The sweet flowers indrying and dying down, The grasses forgetting their blaze and consenting to brown. It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes. I am aware there is winter to heed. There is no warm house That is fitted with my need. I am cold in this cold house this house Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost halls. I am a woman, and dusty, standing among new affairs. I am a woman who hurries through her prayers. Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my Desert and my dear relief Come: there shall be such islanding from grief, And small communion with the master shore. Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin, Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die. Somebody muffed it? Somebody wanted to joke. Reprinted By Consent of Brooks Permissions Question Use the poem to answer the question. What pair of lines feature an example of enjambment? (1 point) Responses “Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my Desert and my dear relief” “Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my Desert and my dear relief” “I am a woman, and dusty, standing among new affairs. I am a woman who hurries through her prayers.” “I am a woman, and dusty, standing among new affairs. I am a woman who hurries through her prayers.” “It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone. The sweet flowers indrying and dying down,” “It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone. The sweet flowers indrying and dying down,” “It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes. I am aware there is winter to heed.” “It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes. I am aware there is winter to heed.”
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The pair of lines that feature an example of enjambment is:
“It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone. The sweet flowers indrying and dying down.”
In this example, the thought continues from one line to the next without a pause or punctuation at the end of the first line, which is characteristic of enjambment.
