Epistrophe

Determine if each sentence is an example of an Epistrophe

  1.  
    “If you had known the virtue of the ring, Or half her worthiness that gave the ring, Or your own honour to contain the ring, You would not then have parted with the ring.“
  2.  
    “Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters …“
  3.  
    “Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you … Scarcity and want shall shun you, Ceres’ blessing so is on you.”
  4.  
    “Where now? Who now? When now?”
  5.  
    “Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
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Determine if each sentence is an example of an Epistrophe

  1.  
    “If you had known the virtue of the ring, Or half her worthiness that gave the ring, Or your own honour to contain the ring, You would not then have parted with the ring.“
  2.  
    “Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters …“
  3.  
    “Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you … Scarcity and want shall shun you, Ceres’ blessing so is on you.”
  4.  
    “Where now? Who now? When now?”
  5.  
    “Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

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