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Poetry & prosody

Contre-rejet (anticipation)

A short element placed at a line's end, announcing the sentence unfolding in the next line — the rejet's mirror.

The contre-rejet inverts the rejet: the brief element sits at the line's end and launches a sentence that unfolds in the next line. The word suspended at the line's edge takes on an announcing relief — it opens instead of concluding, and the white space after it becomes an in-breath before the dive.

Rejet and contre-rejet are the two fine tools of line-edge work: one underlines by landing, the other by suspension. Their conscious use instantly separates crafted free verse from randomly chopped prose — the line's edges are where most of the verse-maker's craft happens.

Example

"And then / the house went dark" — "And then" hangs, loading the turn.

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