Jim Charter wrote:
> Jim Charter wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> I seem to have the thought that repeating the first verse as the last is 
> common with hymns?  Haven't been to church in four decades so it is a 
> hazy thought at best.
Well near misses are the Rondeau, powerful example:In Flanders Fields
and something called a Didactic Cinquain  The whole Cinquain thing is 
rather interesting
http://www.cinquain.org/theory.html

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