Repetition & Refrain
Epanalepsis
Starting and ending a clause with the same word or phrase, so the sentence circles back to where it began. The loop suggests obsession, inevitability, or a self-contained truth.
"The king is dead, long live the king."
Don't confuse it with Anadiplosis. Anadiplosis repeats across a clause boundary (end of one, start of the next); epanalepsis circles within one unit.
In the Reader — 2 excerpts
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher
Travels with
Devices that share a passage with epanalepsis most often — company reveals character.
The rest of the family
Anaphora Epistrophe Symploce Anadiplosis Gradatio / Climax Epizeuxis Diacope Conduplicatio Polyptoton