What is a figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse called?
reduplication — (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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