Diacope
Diacope is a rhetorical term meaning uninterrupted repetition of a word, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase.
Examples:
- “All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!” (William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1).
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells–
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells–
–Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”
See also
- Tmesis
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