10 Examples of Complexion

The complexion is a Figure of speech which consists of beginning with the same word and ending with the same word. For example: I like airplanes, I like you / I like to travel, I like you (Manu Chao).

The complexion combines two repetition figures simultaneously: the anaphora (repetition of words at the beginning of verses) and the epiphora (repetition of words at the end of the verses).

It is important not to confuse complexion with epanadiplosis, in which each line repeats at the end what was established at the beginning, and each one may or may not be different from the previous line.

• See also: poetic resources

examples of complexion

1. The sea. The sea.
   The sea. Only the sea.
   (Rafael Alberto)

1. For
   come to taste it all,
   you don't want to like anything.
   For
   come to know everything
   you don't want to know anything about anything.
   To come to possess it all,
   don't want to own something in nothing.
   To come to be everything,
   don't want to be something at all
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   To come to what you don't like,
   you have to go where you don't like;
   To come to what you don't know,
   You have to go where you don't know.
   To come to possess what you do not possess,
   you have to go where you do not have.
   To come to what you are not,
   you have to go where you are not.
   when you notice something,
   you stop throwing yourself into everything.
   To come from all to all,
   you have to leave yourself completely in everything.
   And when you come to have it at all,
   you have to have it without wanting anything.
   (Saint John of the Cross)

1. (...) I did not know how to serve you, no,
   and, now that he would serve you,
   I can't have you, no.
   (Anonymous – “Fresh Rose Romance”)

1. Let the king go through what he orders everyone to go through, justice is.
   That the prince, to introduce the remedy of his own, does not hesitate to strip off his majesty or humiliate himself, justice is.
   Let the law that he wants to give to all begin with himself, justice is.
   Let him use the remedy he gives, justice is;
   for although she has not needed him for the apology, she has needed him for the example.
   (Quevedo – “Policy of God”)

1. I like cinnamon, I like you
   I like fire, I like you
   I like to shake, I like you
   I like La Coruña, I like you
   I like Malasaña, I like you
   I like chestnut, I like you
   I like Guatemala, I like you
   (Manu Chao – “I like it”)

1. Another afternoon that does not burn this afternoon
   without the day after tomorrow
   another afternoon so cowardly this afternoon
   that does not taste apples.
   (Joaquín Sabina – “Another Cowardly Thursday”)

1. Let a Don Pelón be worth his salt
   who ate a pellet,
   It may well be;
   More than the honorable biznaga
   Don't say that she was salad,
   Can not be.

   Let the father forget the daughter
   To find someone who suits you,
   It may well be;
   But let the winter pass
   Without her looking for a son-in-law,
   Can not be.
   (Luis de Góngora y Argote – “Let him ask a Minguilla heartthrob»)

1. If you desire honesty, what is more honest than virtue, which is the root and source of this honesty?
   If honor, to whom is honor and respect due, if not to virtue?
   If beauty, what is more beautiful than the image of virtue?
   If utility, what is more useful than virtue, because with it the highest good is achieved?
   (Fray Louis of Granada)

See also:

• anastrophe
• Asyndeton
• Apostrophe
• Epithet
• sensory images