20 Examples of Epanadiplosis

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The epanadiplosis is a Figure of speech which consists of beginning and ending the same verse with the same word. For example: Green I love you green (Federico García Lorca – “Romance somnambulo”).

In Greek, the word epanadiplosis means "doubling." It is a figure of repetition, belonging in turn to the group of figures of speech.

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example of epanadiplosis

1. Hooray, Desert Cossacks, hooray.
   (Jose de Espronceda)

1. The owner of the turtledoves, the owner...
   (Ruben Dario)

1. Are you okay? I repeat, are you okay?
   I want to talk to you to know how you are, that's why I want to.
   Very nice Christmas tree, really, very nice.
   I thank everyone for coming to my party, I appreciate it.
   Give me a reason to continue, just one reason (…).

1. It would be less painful if it weren't
   I nard your complexion for my sight, nard,
   I thistle your skin for my touch, thistle,
   had your voice to my ear, had it.
   Tuera is your voice to my ear, tuera,
   and I burn if I hear you and if I look at you I burn,
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   and I'm slow to burn what I'm slow to offer you
   miera, my voice for yours miera.

   Zarza is your hand if I touch it, bramble,
   wave your body if I reach it, wave,
   close once, but a thousand not close.

   Garza is my grief, slender and sad heron,
   alone like a sigh and an oh, alone,
   stubborn is his mistake and in his stubborn misfortune
   (Miguel Hernández – “The lightning that does not stop”)

1. Last mooring, my last anxiety creaks in you.
   (Pablo Neruda – “Poem 8” by Twenty love poems and a desperate song)

1. Sonnet when born is not a sonnet
   is an idea, a rhythm, and it is
   reverse meter and rhymes backwards,
   stark sketch of a sketch.

   I challenge graceful muses, and it is the challenge
   cuts. Why, oh discourteous pen,
   Instead of breath, do you offer me the reverse?
   The quartet is already complete. Finally complete!

   Tough job, this job
   you have lost If you don't have an ace left!
   Head down the triplet, head down.

   After the verse you discover -reverse!-
   Under the consonants hits low
   Satan with the tail, Satan.
   (María Rosal – “At the bottom of the page”)

1. Go away, little soldier, go away
   next to that brunette.
   (traditional romance)

1. jumpsuit silk dress
   it never stops being cute.
   (Góngora – “Humiliation that occurred in Granada”)

1. Words of love, words.
   (Gerardo Diego – “Romance of the Duero”)

1. Precious, run, Precious!
   See where it comes from!
   (Federico García Lorca – “Precious and the air”)

1. Go away, little soldier, go away 
   next to that brunette.
   (“The Fifth”)

1. You spend carrying in your waves
   words of love, words.
   (Gerardo Diego – “Romance of the Duero”)

1. Silence of the night, painful silence 
   night…
   (Rubén Darío – “Nighttime”)

1. Because you didn't know how to understand my heart what was in it, because you didn't
   (Julieta Venegas – "I'm leaving")

1. Crossing forests and estuaries, crossing forests and estuaries.
   Dreaming that I love you
   I want you dreaming about.”
   (Sebastián Piana and Homero Manzi – “Pampa Luna”)

1. What was it like, my God, what was it like?
   (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

1. It's lovely tonight
   your hell is lovely, tonight!
   (Los Redonditos de Ricotta – “Hell is lovely tonight”)

1. We are equal in essence, equal.
   (Juan Meléndez Valdés – “The fall of Luzbel”)

1. His fury grows and the storm grows.

1. Green I want you green
   wind green; green branches
   (Federico García Lorca – “Romance sleepwalker”)

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