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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Exercise in Conduplicatio (repetitions)

Ploce
 The drowning one cries, “Help! Help!”  

Paroemion
Hurry! He hails, heed his harrowing holler!  

Anaphora    
He weakens! He won’t last long!
 He is the last one left alive in the wreck!

Diacope
His arms flail, his arms flutter!

Epistrophe
Yes, his flailing arms flutter
on the water, like bathing seabirds flutter

Anatanaclasis
and he waves and he sinks and he rises!
Soon he will disappear in the waves!

Syncope
He will collapse, insensible, into darkness!

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