card 7 epistrophe

"Ending a series of lines, phrases, or sentences with the same word or words."

Twenty years we have stood together, and love has been our stone
Many times the storm did test us, and love has been our stone
Came pain and sorrow death and trial, and love has been our stone
Came passion, triumph, lovers bower, and love has been our stone
So many tides have come and gone, so many winds our ship has sailed
Our voyage would end with out an anchor, And Love has been our Stone

card 2 Anadiplosis redux

I happened to write a new verse using this concept:

God created a world, created it and filled it with light and life.
Life flourished, following its cycle every plant and beast.

Beast roamed lived and died; and the wild was untamed.
Untamed into the world now did God introduce Mankind.

Mankind God made in his own image able to make a world.
A world made by each to fill with whatever they create.

Create a world of life and love and you will love the life therein
Therein lies the danger, there are other things we can create.

Create not a world of bitter hatred, darkness and despair
Despair then of the world of life and love will be your fate.

Fate such as this is not what God has meant for his creation
Creation of a world is the true gift to mankind from God

Card 6 Epanalepsis

Epanalepsis.

"Repetition of the same word or clause after a short interval. More strictly at the end of a line, phrase, or clause of the same word or words that occurred at the beginning of that line, phrase, or clause"

My take:

I would meet you at the length of my blade, for it is truth that a blade demands a blade.

Card 5 - Assonance

Assonance - Defined as "repetition of similar sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants." In the quote from Shakespeare given, I am not readily identifying this pattern from.

This one I had problems with but I eventually got it after asking for help from Richard Bennett and a cousin by marriage Randal Weiss

"All we do is bald and broad,
Our auld professions all consuming.
we crawled and cleaned the stalls of horse
To bear our salt against the pall"

Card 4 Antanaclasis

 Antanaclasis

"The repition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance."

If you lie with me I will make you a queen
Should you lie with me it will make us both villains.

Card 3 Anaphora

Anaphora 

"Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines."

The Lodge is met in Peace
The Lodge is maintained in Harmony
The Lodge meets upon the Level
The Lodge acts upon the Plumb
The Lodge parts upon the Square.

Card 2 Anadiplosis

Anadiplosis: Card 2 of my Rhetoric flash cards.

"The repetition of the last word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next."

Every Mason has taken an Obligation
The Obligation we take makes us all Brothers
As Brothers, we will all learn our Obligation