serpentine verse

serpentine verse

poetry
      in poetry, a line of verse beginning and ending with the same word, as in the first line of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's “Frater Ave Atque Vale”:

Row us out to Desenzano, to your Sirmione row

      The term likens such verses to depictions of serpents with their tails in their mouths.

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