Figures of Repetition (clauses and ideas)

Auxesis

Arrangement of clauses or sentences in ascending order of importance
I may, I must, I can, I will, I do/ Leave following that which it is gain to miss.---Astrophil and Stella, 47

Repetition of phrases or clauses of equal length and corresponding grammatical structure
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.---Charles V

Needless repetition of the same idea in different words; pleonasm on the level of a sentence or sentences If you have a friend, keep your friend, for an old friend is to be preferred before a new friend, this I say to you as your friend.---The Garden of Eloquence, 49

Reversal of grammatical structures or ideas in sucessive phrases or clauses, which do not necessarily involve a repetition of words
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er/ Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves.---Othello, 3.3.169

Repetition of clauses or idea by negation
A bliss in proof; and prov'd, a very woe;/ Before, a joy propos'd; behind a dream.---Shakespeare Sonnets, 129

The replacement of a single word by several which together have the same meaning; a substitution of more words for less
While memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe...---Hamlet, 1.4.96

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