there is an enjambment poetry, that one would be Larkin’s one. Brogan and Scott perfectly define the effect of the enjambment when affirming that: “In reading, the non-coincidence of the frames of syntax and meter in enjambment has the effect of giving the reader “mixed messages”: the closure of the metrical pattern at line-end implies a stop (pause), no matter how infinitesimal, while the obvious incompletion of the syntactic period says, go on. The one scissors the other. These conflicting signals, in heightening readily tension, also thereby heighten awareness, so that in fact one is made more aware of the word at line-end than its predecessors”. (1993, 359). It is a resource whose “tension” ends directly at the result before mentioned: that
Japan did not intend to invade the United States. Rather, she planned to feed upon the riches of the conquered territories behind a ring of impregnable defense positions, from which she would beat off any attacker. But the high command, bedazzled by success and greedy for more, decided instead to continue the sweep before its momentum was lost. The admirals and generals pointed out that naval losses, which they had anticipated at 25 per cent, had been infinitesimal. The largest ship sunk had been a destroyer, and so more than adequate forces remained for the new drive. Furthermore, they reasoned, the defense perimeter would be protected as much by greater depth as by greater consolidation. They therefore set in motion two ambitious plans. One was an amphibious assault southward to Port Moresby, a town on the southeastern tip of New Guinea only 400 miles from Australia. The other pivoted on Midway, a tiny atoll in the middle of