Help! Figures of speech question

[ndesrosiers]

I am a song writer and this has been driving me crazy recently. Does anybody know what it's call when a word is used to end a line and then begin another, as though it were a run on sentence?

A bit hard to explain but it it would go something like

"Betray my short attention span
the distance, bridge the border"
Blink 182 "Everytime I Look For You"

Where the two idea are different in context, but linked by that word. If anybody has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[mrbloom]

It's called...tacky?

I doubt it's an established literary device because it makes no sense - it's more of a mutilation of English.

[Hyper Viper]

Mrbloom, that's wrong..

It's called "enjambment"

Enjambment
The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause. An example of enjambment can be found in the first line of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees: "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree." Enjambment comes from the French word for "to straddle."

[mrbloom]

That's the correct definition of enjambment. However, that's not what he is referring too. He is referring to using the same word to mean two different things, such as:

I think I shall never sea capped with blue breakers.

That's a pun, I guess.

[Captain Cosine]

"Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China White/As Dracula as I approach the bottom." is a good example.

The best fit I think would be a pun, just without the humor. I'm not exactly sure.

[Shanalorm]

If the sentence is broken
and continued below it is an enjambement, no matter what the meaning of the word.
Even when the word has two meanings.
If not it can be an Unjustfully Removal, which is in truth a stylemistake.
It can also be an Endoublement, which is an understyle for Humorous Worduse.
If you are English and disagree completely, that can be understandable since I here use the dutch literary system and rules.