Poetry Exercise: Enjambments & Caesuras

The next exercise for crafting poetry is to write run-on lines (otherwise known as enjambed lines) and write in some pauses (caesuras) on top of a basic iambic pentameter couplet. So I first wrote a set of five couplets in straight iambic pentameter with end stopped lines and a second set as a variation on the first with enjambments and caesuras. The subjects were given by Stephen Fry.

1. Precisely what you see and hear outside your window

end stopped:
I sit and hear a car and bike roll past.
I see a tree with leaves so green give shade.

enjambed:
A bike goes swish. A car roars past. But green
Remains the tree. In silence growing strong.

2. Precisely what you would like to eat right this minute.
NB: since I did this exercise right after lunch I wasn't hungry but wanted a nice drink so that's what I wrote about.

end stopped:
A cappucino would be nice to sip
Or cold green tea sans sucre oh so sweet

enjambed:
A frothy drink, all steaming hot, would suit
Me fine. Or else a tea, all icy green. Sweet.

3. Precisely what you last remember dreaming about:

end stopped:
I really don't remember what I dream
I fall asleep and wake and all is gone

enjambed:
The dark enfolds: I fall asleep. Enwrapped
am I till dawn. Then sunbeams wake: all dreams are gone.

4. Precisely what uncompleted chores are niggling at you:

end stopped:
My income tax forms call out to be filled.
And my computer desk so old discard.

enjambed:
More tax, more tax - more papers still remain
Unfilled. Computer desk so old it must go soon.

5. Precisely what you hate about your body

end stopped:
I wish I had a slimmer tum and arms
More hair but not upon my legs but head

enjambed:
Tight abs: not me! Nor toned, taut arms. Alas,
My hair: it falls but grows too slow. O me.