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Epiphora
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Easy rhymes are what I want.Repetition is what I want.Epiphoras are what I want. The epiphora (also named epistrophe or antistrophe) is a stylistic device where a text has each sentence ending with the same string of words. With such a concept, you're likely to find this device in Poetry and Music (though the rhymes are not of the richest kind). Due to the rhythm and repetition it involves, epiphoras can also be efficient in speeches where you make a point and pin it down. That last string of words may have a different meaning as it gets repeated while the rest of the text changes after each sentence. The opposite of an epiphora is an Anaphora. Combining the two gives us a symploce (example: "I'll buy this wine for my wife today. I'll buy this book for my wife today"). A case of Looped Lyrics or Madness Mantra doesn't count as an epiphora since the string of words needs to be the same while the rest of the text is different from sentence to sentence. The earliest epiphora was found in The Bible and makes this trope Older Than Feudalism. Supertrope of For Your People, By Your People. Overlaps with Repeated for Emphasis. Compare with Every Episode Ending which is more of a visual fiction-specific trope. Epiphoras may be also be Rhyming with Itself, but not if they're like using different end words like "seasick" and "sick", instead of just "sick" by itself. Not to be confused with the Epigraph which is a quote appearing at the beginning or the end of a fiction. Sure, all movies or episodes from a same series end with a similar credits sequence, but that doesn't mean it's an epiphora (as credits sequences are pretty much common for any Film/TV series). |
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River City Girls: The end credits song ends with talking about "River City Girls": | |
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In the Poetic Edda, the poem "Baldrs draumar" or "Vegtamskviða" has the seeress who Odin revives to know the meaning of Baldr's bad dreams finish three stanzas saying she was summoned against her will. In Henry Adams Bellows's translation, she repeats "Unwilling I spake, | and now would be still." | |
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In the Reptilicus episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, during the song "Every Country Has a Monster", Tom Servo and Crow rhyme "Luxembourg" with itself for four lines. | |
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The cast of Shrek had a version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" that goes "My true love gave to me / a fire-breathing dragon just for me!" | |
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The Tempest, Juno sings one during the first scene of Act 4: | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when the gargoyles are encouraging Quasimodo: | |
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Jez's poem "Fuck You Bush" on Peep Show: | |
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Chris Cornell: Soundgarden's "Live to Rise" that plays during the end credits of The Avengers (2012) rhymes "again" and "again," and "face" and "face." Casino Royale (2006) has an opening song that constantly rhymes "you" with "you." |
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Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory: In Re;Birth3, when Neptune is yelling at her friends to think of her safety, "Are you" Anaphora, transitioning to "me" Epiphora: | |
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Ted: Ted's boss promoting him because of his outrageous actions, emphasizing the "guts": | |
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In the theme song to the animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Bowling for Soup rhyme "time" with "time" (in the chorus lyrics "We've got to save the Earth and get to school on time/So many things to do and not much time!") three separate times. | |
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In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, after Westley leaves Buttercup's farm to seek his fortune, he sends her frequent letters, and to make up for all the times he didn't say the actual words, he ends every sentence with "I love you." | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: In a non-poetic example, there's this series of lines from Makoto's thoughts when Monokuma interrupts a moment between him and Sayaka in Chapter 1. | |
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Arthur: In "I'm a Poet", the main cast enters a poetry contest. Binky's submission, "Binky's Poem", ends every line but the last with the word "poem." This being a cast of kids, who exclusively expect rhyming poems, Muffy calls out the fact that he tried to rhyme "poem" with itself four times. | |
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The Palaververse: From Treasures: In the fifth chapter, one of Old Chestnut's many objections about foal Daring's presence in the "ruin" where they meet for the second time: From The First Stitch, when Rarity resolves to do something: |
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During Frozen we have this line in "Let it Go": | |
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Fraggle Rock: In "A Tune for Two", everyone is preparing for the Duet-a-thon, a Talent Contest in which pairs of Fraggles sing duets they've written. Gobo and Wembley plan on performing together, but when Uncle Matt arrives unexpectedly and says he'll be Gobo's partner, Wembley sadly steps down. He tries to find a new partner but is unable to, and Cotterpin finds him in tears. Wembley, when explaining to her why he's crying, uses the phrase "to do" at the end of four consecutive phrases. | |
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Used multiple times in the Moana score: "Where You Are" rhymes "inside" with "inside" two separate times (the first time referring to "the water sweet inside" and "meat inside" coconuts). "How Far I'll Go": The second verse twice uses 3 lines in a row ending with the word "island". "Shiny" rhymes "anything that glitters" with "thing that glitters" (and also "beginners"). |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: When the blood construct explodes, it covers everyone in blood, except for Touma. When Mikoto asks what that's about, he just shrugs and says it was magic blood. Even the Sisters find that explanation odd. "at Kamijou Touma." | |
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Sunset Overdrive: The last bit of fine print on the http://www.overchargedrink.com website used to promote the game, is this list of OverCharge Delirium XT symptoms, and at the end, it notes that "your own risk" is in your hands: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants did this a few times, all of them coming from the eponymous character: "Hall Monitor": "Graveyard Shift": Double Subverted in "New Student Starfish". |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: "Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock": Michael Bay appears and raps a lot about money. | |
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El Goonish Shive: From balance-116: Talking about magic training | |
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Arthur (1981): "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" rhymes "time" with itself in two consecutive lines: "Living his life one day at a time/He's showing himself a really good time". It's easy to miss this because there's no real pause between the lines and for that matter the next one, which isn't meant to rhyme. | |
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Doctor Who: Doctor Who S12 E1 "Robot": When the K1 Robot is warning people trying to invade to the bomb shelter he just exited: The poem that was used in "A Good Man Goes to War" and its promotional material: |
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Soundgarden's "Live to Rise" that plays during the end credits of The Avengers (2012) rhymes "again" and "again," and "face" and "face." | |
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Potionomics: Sylvia being emphatic in the face of adversity in the opening cutscene: | |
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Queen: Near the end of "Under Pressure", Freddie Mercury sings "Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love that one more chance?" | |
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Train's "Meet Virginia" involves this: | |
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Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure: The Flavor Text of Ashes, for a comparison of "most people": | |
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The Book of Corinthians (precisely 1 Corinthians 13) contains what could be the earliest example of an epiphora on its eleventh verse. | |
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Yello: "Oh Yeah" features a minor epiphora with the lines "such a good time, a really good time." | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In Grandmothers and Other Fearsome Encounters when talking about how "dangerous" the Magic Misfires from non-standard spell enhancement can be: | |
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Casino Royale (2006) has an opening song that constantly rhymes "you" with "you." | |
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Encanto's song "We Don't Talk About Bruno": | |
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In Drop the Dead Donkey Joy composes a Limerick about Sir Royston. The first, second and fifth lines all end in "bastard". | |
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The "The Epic of Gilgamesh" makes this trope Older Than Dirt: | |
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The Dragon King's Temple: Chapter 5: | |
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