Epanastrophe

Epanastrophe is (Greek for "Wiederumwendung") in the Verslehre the repetition of the last verse a verse as Anfangsvers the following verse.

In rhetoric , epanastrophe is synonymous with the more common term anadiplosis , i.e. the rhetorical figure of the repetition of the last word of a sentence at the beginning of the next.

literature

• Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 39.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. Special edition of the 8th, improved and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 217.