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28 Sep 2024 21:25:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random question about poetry  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 1 Sep 2009 23:35:37
Message: <4a9de809$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   This is one of those questions which is basically impossible to google.
> Perhaps because there is no answer. Anyways...
> 
>   Does the style of poetry where the first verse is repeated as the last
> verse have a name?
> 
>   The idea of repeating the first verse as the last verse of the poem can
> make it very profound and powerful, IMO. An absolutely superb example by
> Tolkien:
> 
>     The way is shut
>     It was made by those who are Dead
>     And the Dead keep it
>     Until the time comes
>     The way is shut
> 

Isn't that the line repeated?


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