Diacope

Diacope () is a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words. It derives from a Greek word meaning "cut in two".

Examples
 "Bond. James Bond." — James Bond
 "Put out the light, and then put out the light." — Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, scene 2.
 "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — Richard III
 Leo Marks's poem "The Life That I Have", memorably used in the film Odette, is an extended example of diacope:
 The life that I have
 Is all that I have
 And the life that I have
 Is yours.

 The love that I have
 Of the life that I have
 Is yours and yours and yours.
 
 A sleep I shall have
 A rest I shall have
 Yet death will be but a pause.
 
 For the peace of my years
 In the long green grass
 Will be yours and yours and yours.

The first line in the poem not to deploy diacope is the one about death being "a pause."

 "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." — Paul Harvey. This is also an example of an epanalepsis.

See also
 Epizeuxis
 Tmesis

References

Category:Figures of speech
Category:Rhetoric