Rhymes of repetition
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Epic nooks still exist in this scope: Epizeuxis, Epanalepsis and Diacope*
Anon and on we go, go, go
as far as ‘stop,’ ‘don’t,’ ‘not’ or ‘no’
For some an end and some a bend:
‘What sign’s design assigns my flow?’
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E’er-scamping pained the campaign clerk
whose mudslung lungs bore muddied murk
How plumb unfair the glum warfare
‘tween weenie weeds with bids berserk
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For every night is every day
forever moon forever gray
for never minding ending things
that never ended, anyway
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A-blowin’ past the blow-by-blow
the bullying blowhard bulldozed Beau
who’d planted plain his planet plan
to grant the ground ‘round rounds to grow
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No doubt a route to cause a bout
the landed lad had lines planned out
to sever several turfs of serfs
beset by settling ‘side his clout
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Sunrise sunup ’til sunken down
the sundry country’s sunburned crown
supplies lies for a foreign tour
and mooches moola town-by-town
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Do be do be do-si-do
from crooner scat to cowboy hoe
a multiverse of diverse tribes
lends blended culture quid pro quo
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Epizeuxis: Repetition of the same word in succession with no intervening words
Epanalepsis: Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning and end of a clause or sentence, with intervening words
Diacope: Repetition of a word or phrase with few intervening words
