repetition

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Definition
The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.

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1. The repetition of a phrase in poetry may have an incantatory effect as in the opening lines of T. S. Eliot's "Ash-Wednesday":

“Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn....”

2. Rarely a line may be repeated entire and immediately as a means of bringing a poem to a close, an extension of the method of bringing a sequence of terza rima to a close with a couplet:

"And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." (Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening")

3. This is a repetition of an image.

=Attributions= 1 & 2. "Repetition (Poetic Term)." __English 88, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry__. 18 July 2007. 27 Sep 2007 < http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/repetition.html>.

3. Davies, Jim. "Jim Davies: the blog." __The blog__. 18 March 2007. 27 Sep 2007 .

K.Wilson period 3