Figures of Repetition (words)

Eizeuxis

Emphatic repetition of a word with no other words between
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation.---Othello, 2.3.264

Repetition of the same word or root in different grammatical functions or forms
Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances,/ Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans;/ Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,/ To make him moan but pity not his moans.---The Rape of Lucrece, 974-977

repetition of a word, but in two different meanings
Whoever hath her wish, thou has thy Will,/ And Will to boot, and Will in overplus---Shakespeare Sonnets, 135

Repetition of a word at the beginning of a clause, line, or sentence
Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!---King John, 2.1.561

Repetition of a word at the end of a clause, line, or sentence
I'll have my bond!/ Speak not against my bond!/ I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.---The Merchant of Venice, 3.3.4

Repetition of both beginnings and endings
Most true that I must fair Fidessa love,/ Most true that fair Fidessa cannot love./ Most true that I do feel the pains of love,/ Most true that I am captive unto love.---Fidessa, 62

Repetition of the beginning at the end
Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows:/ Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power.---King John, 2.1.329-30

Repetition of the end of a line or clause at the next beginning
For I have loved long, I crave reward/ Reward me not unkindly: think on kindness,/ Kindness becommeth those of high regard/ Regard with clemency a poor man's blindness---Fidessa, 16

Repeating anadiplosis
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,/ And every tongue brings in a several tale,/ And every talecondemns me for a villain.---Richard III, 5.3.194

A heaping together and piling up of many words that have a similar meaning
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in/ To saucy doubts and fears.---Macbeth, 3.4.24

The needless repetition of words; a tautology on the level of a phrase
Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad,/ And to the ground his eyes were lowly bent,/ Simple in shew, and voyde of malice bad...---The Faerie Queene, Book 1, 1.29

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order; a chiasmus on the level of words (AB; BA)
Thy sea within a puddle's womb is hearsed,/ and not the puddle in thy sea dispersed.---The Rape of Lucrece, 657-658