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immediate repetition:
"Say thou dost love me, love me, love , --- toll" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Repetition of same word in close proximity
"Face to face" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Self-contradiction
"When our two souls stand up erect and strong, / Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher" -Two souls cannot stand nor do they have faces - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Repetition of the same word at the beginning of a line
"I love thee.../ I love thee..../ I love thee...." |
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| One line in poem carried to the next |
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slows down line; breaks rhythm:
"On the bald street breaks the blank day" - Tennyson |
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| series of "if" then "and's" of subordinate clauses |
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| Arrangement in parallel order |
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| repetition of conjunctions in a series |
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Repetition of variant forms of same or similar words:
"An infant crying in the night; / An infant crying for the light, / And with no language but a cry." - Tennyson's Memoriam |
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Last word or sound of one line or clause used as the first word of the next:
"Who then devised the torment? Love. / Love is the unfamiliar Name" |
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins created to give lines a number of stresses, with number and placement of unstressed syllables highly variable. |
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| Play on words with similar sound and different meaning "Maragaret are you grieving/ Over Goldengrove unleaving?" - Hopkins |
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| using other words to create new words to compress |
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two different words/meanings
"Buckle!"- Hopkins |
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Starts with O
"O my chevalier!" - Hopkins |
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tension; inner struggle; desperation
"I can no more. I can;" - Hopkins |
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