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Conduplicatio Couplet

Structure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A couplet where one or more key words from the first line are repeated at the beginning of the second line.

Detailed Definition
A Conduplicatio Couplet is a two-line stanza in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the start of both lines, creating a resonant echo that underscores thematic urgency or lyrical insistence; this form leverages conduplicatio’s rhetorical power within the compact symmetry of the couplet, often used in devotional or protest poetry for heightened effect.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Conduplicatio Couplet repeats a key word from the end of the first line at the start of the second for emphasis; e.g.: “She found peace in the storm’s wild roar. / Roar though it might, her heart held fast.”
Additional Notes
Couplet repeating word/phrase from first line's start in second line. Rhetorical device from classical rhetoric. Related to anadiplosis. Tip: Creates emphasis through immediate echo.
Also Known As
Reduplication couplet Repeated-word pair Emphatic doublet Echo dyad
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