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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': From an untitled song of Incident Log: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6382 6382]]-SCN-02: "Blackshirt", in two different verses and spread with a line between repetitions:
--> You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
You just a number in a ledger, you be leavin' on a stretcher\\
'cuz you dead, blackshirt\\
And they don't cry for screws, ain't that the truth\\
You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
Callin' momma for instructions on the eve of your destruction\\\
You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
Them Guccis ain't for runnin', and you know the end is comin'\\
Better hide, blackshirt\\
Or you'll drown in the flood of your own blue blood\\
You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
Shriekin' orders down the phone until your ass is overthrown\\\
You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
Your bullshit won't protect you from that thing what's gonna wreck you\\
When it ends, blackshirt\\
'cuz it's comin' down soon, and you ain't immune\\
You ain't shit, blackshirt\\
We gonna empty out them cells and blow your asses all to hell

--> She’d found her first trap. She’d outwitted her first trap.

* One Dunkin Donuts televised commercial has Fred the Baker (actor Michael Vale) repeatedly going to work with his cheery {{catchphrase}} "Time to make the donuts!" It got to the point where he opens the door to discover himself returning from Dunkin Donuts, muttering "I made the donuts."

-->''Who rubbed oil on your back '''Mourn for you now''',''
-->''Who poured beer for your drinking '''Mourn for you now'''.''

--> Demons run '''[[TitleDrop when a good man goes to war]]'''.
--> Night will fall and drown the sun, '''when a good man goes to war'''.
--> Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise... '''when a good man goes to war'''.

The epiphora (also named ''epistrophe'' or ''antistrophe'') is a stylistic device where a text has each sentence ending with the same string of words. With such a concept, you're likely to find this device in {{Poetry}} and {{Music}} (though the rhymes are not [[RhymingWithItself of the richest kind]]). Due to the rhythm and repetition it involves, epiphoras can also be efficient in [[SpeechesAndMonologues speeches]] where you make a point and [[RepeatedForEmphasis pin it down]]. That last string of words may have a different meaning as it gets repeated while the rest of the text changes after each sentence.

* Music/{{Train}}'s "Life"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "I'm a Poet", the main cast enters a poetry contest. Binky's submission, "Binky's Poem", end every line but the last with the word "poem." This being a cast of kids, who exclusively expect rhyming poems, Muffy calls out the fact that [[RhymingWithItself he tried to rhyme "poem" with itself four times]].

You ain't shit, blackshirt
Them Guccis ain't for runnin', and you know the end is comin'
Better hide, blackshirt
Or you'll drown in the flood of your own blue blood
You ain't shit, blackshirt
Shriekin' orders down the phone until your ass is overthrown

* In the ''Literature/PoeticEdda'', the poem "Baldrs draumar" or "Vegtamskviða" has the seeress who Odin revives to know the meaning of Baldr's bad dreams finish her stanza saying she was summoned against her will three times. In Henry Adams Bellows's translation, she repeats "Unwilling I spake, | and now would be still."

* Music/{{REM}}: In "Man on the Moon", every line in the verses ends with an interjection of "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."

* Music/ChildishGambino's "Yes":
--> '''''I like pink, it always looks good on me'''.''
--> ''And '''I like pink, it always looks good on me'''.''
--> ''That second part, I was talking about vagina, homie.''

* Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop":
-->''And everyone in '''line in the bathroom'''''
-->''Trying to get a '''line in the bathroom'''''
* A symploce example in the chorus of "[[Music/{{Nevermind}} Lithium]]" by {{Music/Nirvana}}:
-->''I like it, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->''I miss you, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->''I love you, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->''I [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killed you]]'', '''''I'm not gonna crack'''''

* "Silent All These Years" by Music/ToriAmos:
--> ''So you've found a girl who thinks '''really deep thoughts'''''
--> ''Tell me what's so amazing about '''really deep thoughts'''?''

* Music/PinkFloyd: The verses of "[[Music/WishYouWereHere Shine On You Crazy Diamond]]" follow up each line with the title phrase.

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* Any story of ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}}'' ends with the same panel of the village [[CelebratingTheHeroes enjoying a feast]] while [[DreadfulMusician the bard Cacofonix]] is [[BoundAndGagged tied and gagged]] (with some rare variations).
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', another rare visual example, has each of its stories ending with the same panel of the titular hero horse-riding into the horizon and singing "I'm A Poor Lonesome Cowboy".
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* The "Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh" makes this trope "main/OlderThanDirt":

-->''All the people of Eridu '''Weep for you Enkidu'',''

-->'''''It's all''' he '''ever wanted'''. '''It's all''' we '''ever wanted'''.''

* A symploce example in the chorus of "Lithium" by {{Music/Nirvana}}:

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** "Hall Monitor"

** "Graveyard Shift"

** "New Student Starfish", DoubleSubverted.

Overlaps with RepeatedForEmphasis. Compare with EveryEpisodeEnding which is more of a visual fiction-specific trope. Epiphoras may be similar to RhymingWithItself, but Identity rhymes don't necessarily end with an AABB rhyming scheme. Not to be confused with the {{Epigraph}} which is a quote appearing at the beginning or the end of a fiction. Sure, all movies or episodes from a same series end with a similar [[CreditsTropes credits sequence]], but that doesn't mean it's an epiphora (as credits sequences are pretty much common for any {{Film}}/[[{{Series}} TV Series]]).

!!Examples

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--> ''Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide '''is valid''', each cycle of the wave '''is valid''', each cycle of a relationship '''is valid'''.''

--> ''When I was '''a child''',''
--> ''I spoke '''as a child''',''
--> ''I understood '''as a child''',''
--> ''I thought '''as a child'''.''

--> ''There was never any more inception '''than there is now''',''
--> ''Nor any more youth or age '''than there is now''',''
--> ''And will never be any more perfection '''than there is now''',''
--> ''Nor any more heaven or hell '''than there is now'''.''

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-->'''''I''' like it, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->'''''I''' miss you, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->'''''I''' love you, '''I'm not gonna crack'''''
-->'''''I''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killed you]], '''I'm not gonna crack'''

--> ''Did you say I've got a lot '''to learn'''''
--> ''Well don't think I'm trying not '''to learn'''''
--> ''Since this is the perfect spot '''to learn'''''
--> ''(...)''
--> ''Starting with the ABC '''of it'''''
--> ''Getting right down to the XYZ '''of it'''''
--> ''Help me solve the mystery '''of it'''''
--> ''(...)''
--> ''One thing isn't very clear '''my love'''''
--> ''Should the teacher stand so near '''my love'''''
--> ''Graduation's almost here '''my love'''''

---> ''Well she wants to live '''her life'''''
---> ''Then she thinks about '''her life'''''

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--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Behold, Patrick, the hallway '''of learning.''' And here's the fountain '''of learning.''' And these are the lockers '''of learning.'''
'''Patrick:''' And these are the stairs '''of learning''', right?

->Easy rhymes are '''what I want'''.
->Repetition is '''what I want'''.
->[[TitleDrop Epiphoras]] are '''what I want'''.