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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