HumanitiesLiteratureComparative PoeticsPoetryRhetoricPoetic FormPoetic LanguagePoeticsSound PatterningAlliterative PatternsPhrase RepetitionStructural Repetition
LUCRETIUS REPEATS HIMSELF more than do other Latin poets. The fact is well known and has been dealt with in a number of recent discussions. Rosamund Deutsch devotes much of her dissertation, The Pattern of Sound in Lucretius, to the various types of repetition the poet employs from simple alliteration to reiterated lines and half-lines., First of all she points out (85) the interesting way in which phrases are repeated in close proximity, such as