Epistrophe

Platonic epistrophe

Examples

• "Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued." — Thomas Wilson
• "... this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." — Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address
• "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." — The Apostle Paul, in the Bible, 1 Cor 13:11
• Senator Mike Mansfield's eulogy to John F. Kennedy used the phrase, "And she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands", five times.
• "There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem." Lyndon B. Johnson in "We Shall Overcome"
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson