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Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: Types of Repetition

AmnaIn this stanza, the poet employs repetition with phrases like 'dank and foul' and 'foul and dank,' altering the order of the same words in lines 1 and 3. Are there specific names of repetition types in poetry? Dank and foul, dank and foul, By the smoky town in its murky cowl; Foul and dank, foul...

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DLosc
DLosc
17:57
@Bookworm I thought about commenting on John Bollinger's answer, but I'm not sure it's sufficiently pertinent: I see some notable parallels between Rilian's fight with the Emerald Witch in serpent form and the Redcrosse Knight's fight with the monster Errour in The Faerie Queene, a text that Lewis would doubtless have known well. So it's possible the Emerald Witch represents not Satan per se but more specifically Error.
(There's no equivalent of the Silver Chair itself in The Faerie Queene, as far as I know, so any connections between the two works are not really pertinent to Rand al'Thor's question.)

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