| Figure Name | mesarchia |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("mesarchia; or, beginning and middle repetition") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | beginning and middle repetition |
| Etymology | Gr. mesos "middle" and archee "beginning" |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Lexicographic Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning and middle of successive sentences. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. The Repetition of the same Word or Words at the beginning and middle of successive Sentences. (Bullinger, 279) |
| Example |
2. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. —Ezekiel 37:25 (Bullinger, 279) 2. "According to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed." -Num. 9:20 Here the repetition is at the beginning and the middle of the passage. (Bullinger, 279) |
| Kind Of | Repetition Addition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | anaphora, epizeuxis, mesodiplosis, traductio, Figures of Repetition, mesodiplosis, mesoteleuton |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |