Anadiplosis

Anadiplosis is a stylistic figure of repetition in which a word or group of words concluding one segment of speech (a line, a sentence) is repeated at the beginning of the next: "…the time will come, / the time of great deeds." Such a "catching-up" creates an effect of smooth linkage, of the continuous flowing-over of thought, reinforces the logical or emotional connection between parts of the text and emphasises the repeated word. Anadiplosis lends speech melodiousness and rhythmic unity, and is therefore widely represented in folk song, the duma, incantations and lyric. The chain-like stringing of several anadiploses forms a peculiar gradation-"staircase." This figure belongs to the means of expressive syntax that organise the semantic cohesion and rhythm of a literary text.