This rhetoric site is fun.
I've pulled up the page of repetition to take a look at other forms of repetition, and have a question to pose:
Symploce is defined as "repetition of both beginnings and endings."
The example given is:
"Most true that I must fair Fidessa love,/ Most true that fair Fidessa cannot love./ Most true that I do feel the pains of love,/ Most true that I am captive unto love.---Fidessa, 62"
Well, that seems curious. The Beginnning and the Ending are both contained in the Beginning of the clauses.
So my question is:
Is symploce a repetitive device whereby one repeats a beginning word and and ending word contained within a single phrase without dividing the two with changing text?
