His lyrics contain layered rhythms, multisyllabic rhymes, internal half rhymes, assonance, and enjambment. Due to the frequent use of enjambment Rilke even breaks through the verse structure. Finally, Petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following. In the 32nd Psalm of the Hebrew Bible enjambment is unusually conspicuous. Her doctoral dissertation on "Homeric enjambment" was completed in 1949. Line breaks may occur mid-clause, creating enjambment, a term that literally means 'to straddle'. Locke's enjambment is also similar to Wyatt's. Enjambment has a long history in poetry. Its opposite is enjambment, where the sentence runs on into the next line. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.