Poems With Repetition

Published: March 2018

Poems With Repetition - Examples Of Poems With Repeated Lines Or Phrases

Repetition in poetry is when a poem has repeated lines or phrases. Repetition is used to bring a reader's attention to specific ideas or themes in the poem, and it's a useful technique to create structure in a poem.

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28 Poems With Repetition - Examples Of Poems With Repeated Lines Or Phrases

  1. But You Didn't

    • By Merrill Glass

    Famous Poem

    The excellent use of structure and repetition in this powerful poem contribute to the strong emotional reaction many people feel when reading this poem.
    When a loved one doesn't return from war there will be many unresolved feelings. Don't wait to tell the important people in your life how you feel about them, do it right away. You never know if you'll get the chance again.

    in Famous Death Poems

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    Remember the time you lent me your car and I dented it?
    I thought you'd kill me...
    But you didn't.

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    This poem truly moved me. I am waiting for my husband to come home from hospital. He has been there for four weeks now and is still in intensive care. He was admitted with sepsis, and so much...

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  2. Phenomenal Woman

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    Maya Angelou is one of the most influential women of our time. Her writing pulls on the hearts of many readers. In addition to her proliferous writing career, Maya Angelou has been a civil rights activist. This poem shows how even though someone is not beautiful on the outside compared to society's standards, there is an inner beauty that makes a woman even more beautiful.

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    Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.

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    Phenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou this poem is a Classic that deals with every women in the world. This poem shows that beauty is compare by what society thinks a woman should looked like,...

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  4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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    This very famous poem, a villanelle, by Dylan Thomas was written as Thomas' father lay on his deathbed. The message that Thomas was conveying to his father was his passionate desire that his father not take death "lying down." He is expressing the feeling that so many have felt as they watched a close friend, parent, or lover slip away. The message to his father is, "Don't Go! Fight! Death is an injustice! Show your passion for life, by not going gentle into that "good" night."

    in Famous Death Poems

    Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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    I like this poem. It reflects the general reaction of the majority of people not wanting their loved ones to go and if so at least they put up a fight, along with being poetically exquisite...

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  5. One Art

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    Possibly her most famous poem, Elizabeth Bishop's,"One Art" is a villanelle, a 6 stanza poem that consists of five tercets (3 line stanzas), and one concluding quatrain (4 line stanza). For more about this challenging poetry form see How To Write a Villanelle.
    This poem is about loss and starts off light with a touch of humor, but loss is certainly not a humorous topic and as the stanzas go on the losses mount. Losing our most precious possessions, our friends and loved ones is a most difficult burden. Bishop lost both her parents as a child. Her father died when she was an infant and her mother was committed to an Insane Asylum when she was five. She never saw her mother again and grew up in the homes of various relatives.

    in Famous Sad Poems

    The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
    so many things seem filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

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  7. Acquainted With The Night

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    “Acquainted With The Night” was published in 1928. It has themes of sadness and isolation. The narrator avoids contact with people and tries to escape his despair. The narrator doesn’t want to let anyone in, which continues his cycle of loneliness. Robert Frost himself was familiar with despair. At the time of writing this poem, he had already lost two children. Two more of his six children would pass away before him in later years. This poem includes symbols such as night (depression) and the moon (hope). It’s written as a “terza rima,” which is a poem made up of tercets (three-line stanzas). Within those stanzas, the ending word of the second line sets up the rhyme of the first and third lines of the next stanza.

    in Famous Sad Poems

    I have been one acquainted with the night.
    I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
    I have outwalked the furthest city light.

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    Each word of the poem is uttering its deep pain in the darkness of night. Highly weighted poem like any other poem of him. Only the one who has gone through this sea of sorrow can understand...

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  8. The Meaning Of Love

    • By Krina Shah
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2008 with permission of the Author.

    I wrote this poem the first time I fell in love with someone. I then came to know what love is and how it feels. I decided to write it down so I could express my views.

    in Romantic Poems

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    To love is to share life together,
    to build special plans just for two,
    to work side by side,
    and then smile with pride,

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    Love is the thing that keeps you up all night because you'd rather talk to that person than sleep. Love can be the best feeling in the world and also the worst. It can bring you higher than...

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  9. When Do I Think Of You?

    • By Sherry Hilderbrand
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 2017 with permission of the Author.

    I think about you throughout the whole day.

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    I think of you in the morning
    before the sun rises,
    when in the still of the darkness
    my heart feels your presence.

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    The best poem I've read in a long time (and I love poems): soft, gentle, evocative, thoughtful, and able to create the same complexity of emotions in the reader. I'm grateful this morning...

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  10. Please Don't Cry

    • By Joe Green
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2010 with permission of the Author.

    Many of you reading this today have lost someone or are losing someone. This poem was written by someone who has lost someone very dear to his heart. My poem is written from the perspective of a dead loved one trying to comfort you. I hope this in some way helps.

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    Please, don't cry.
    I'm not really gone.
    When you look out the window,
    I'll be standing on the lawn.

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    Poem About Loved One's Spirit Being Near, Please Don't Cry

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    This is helping take way the pain. My daughter’s father, my ex-husband and my grandson's grandfather did on Sept. 14, 2016 after 2 weeks in hospice, and on Sept. 23, 2016 he was buried after...

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  11. Love Me

    • By Samantha A. Kemmerer
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2017 with permission of the Author.

    My boyfriend and I have been dating for three months now, and I love him for who he is. He has a hard time believing that I truly love him, but I am for real. I really am falling deeply and madly in love with him.

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    One thing I ask of you...

    Love me for who I am
    and be true.

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    Feelings to love someone and being loved by someone you love are really great. The poem traveled me through those days when me and my boyfriend had a romantic time and had a crush on each...

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  12. Breathe

    • By Tiffaney L. Ganci
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2018 with permission of the Author.

    This poem is about my experience with anxiety and how I am still trying to breathe and work through the hard times. I know there are people out there with experiences like mine, and I hope this poem will help people know they are not alone.

    in Mental Illness Poems

    Panic, worry, darkness closing in around me.
    These are some of the words I could use to describe my anxiety,
    but nothing I can say could speak of its entirety,
    as I cry internally thinking I've lost my sanity.

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    I completely understand you. Whenever I go to the doctor, they say nothing's wrong. But the truth is, it feels like everything is wrong. And it hurts so much, anxiety.

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  13. Life Without You

    • By Nikki Wilfong
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2008 with permission of the Author.

    What life would be like if you were not in it. This poem makes strong use of similes to describe what life is like without the person they love. Similes compare two objects or ideas using the words "like" or "as".

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    Me without you
    is like a leafless fall,
    a snowless winter,
    and a flowerless spring.

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    I'm madly in love with my girl, but suddenly things changed. She cut the communication, so I can't reach her. I don't know if she will be back. I'm feeling choked and lonely. Life without her...

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  14. I Love Your Smile

    • By Ronald Doe
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2011 with permission of the Author.

    I hope it makes all of you smile abundantly.

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    I love your eyes and your soft sighs.
    I love your inner beauty, too.
    I love the way each passing day
    You give a love so warm and true.

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    I always remember that smile, a smile that can make me fall in love. He is my friend. He is so kind and always smiling back at me. Every day I always wanna say to him to keep that smile for...

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  15. Will You Ever Love Me?

    • By Derek S. Weaver
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2018 with permission of the Author.

    I wrote this for the woman I've been searching for my whole life. I just hope that wherever she is that she misses me too and hopes and dreams of the same things that I do. So until that day comes, I'll be missing you wherever you are...

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    When I'm missing you,
    I feel a million miles away.
    I long for your touch.

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  16. Never Stop Being You

    This poem I wrote was an inspirational look at life in general and the reason we live as we do because some of us never stop.

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    Never stop caring about the little things in life.
    Never stop dreaming, and don't give into strife.
    Never stop wondering are we on our own.
    Never stop thinking has your spirituality grown.

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    Well, it's true. No matter how tough life has been and may seem, the best thing to do is to keep moving forward, even when it hurts with the assurance that you are not alone. God is there,...

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  17. Until Forever Dies

    • By Serbec
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2011 with permission of the Author.

    I wrote this poem because I've been thinking of my boyfriend nonstop, and we promised each other we would never leave, that we would be together forever. We're almost together for eight months now and I haven't seen him in two weeks, so I wrote him this poem to make him smile. I just wanted to let him know I love him.

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    This is us,
    Never alone.
    We have each other.
    Whether in the same room

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    That was a super fantastic poem and completely heart touching. Me and my boyfriend will be celebrating two years of our relationship next month and this poem is just so beautiful and perfect...

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  18. Clear Vision

    • By Anne M. Snell
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2018 with permission of the Author.

    My poem is about how I see myself. I see myself as broken, unlovable, and too far gone. But that's not who I really am. This poem is written from the perspective of someone who knows all of my issues. Who know all that I've done but doesn't care. He still loves me anyway. This is how I want to see myself. If you're out there and are hurting today, please know there is someone who loves you. Your story's far from over. You are beautiful, no matter what you've done.

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    She longs to be pretty,
    Because all she sees are her flaws.
    She doesn't see that those "flaws"
    Are really her perfection.

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    This, to me, describes something similar that my friends said/wrote about me. It shocked me at the time how much they cared about me. I felt unlovable after me and my mom started fighting...

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  19. The Life Of A Soldier

    • By Jodi M. Kucera
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2018 with permission of the Author.

    I wrote this poem for my dad in 2015. He's a Vietnam veteran. I found out that May is Military Appreciation Month, so I sent him a text every day thanking him for something in regards to his service. This was the text on day 15. My dad has since passed away, but I still find myself longing to tell him "thank you" once last time.

    in War Poems

    We have an understanding, you and I.
    We sit in silence; nothing needs to be said.

    I know the weight you carry.

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  20. Because She Was My Best Friend

    • By Insha Jesani
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

    I wrote this poem for a class assessment, and when I showed it to my parents, they were really impressed. It's a poem of my own experiences, and everyone motivated me to publish it. So I thought I could just give it a try...

    in Goodbye Friend Poems

    Together we would laugh, together we would cry,
    With each other, we'd never be shy.
    We'd often fight, then sort it out,
    And at each other, we would never shout.

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    When my best friend that I’ve known since I was a baby came back to England, we grew a connection. She was always by my side and made me happy. She has 3 beautiful kids. The youngest is only...

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  21. Love Takes A Little More

    • By Avi Fleischer
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2018 with permission of the Author.

    This is the first poem that I wrote (back in 1996). It's for those people that have difficulty showing their feelings and therefore have a hard time allowing themselves to love and be loved.

    in Relationship Poems

    You supply the lips and I'll supply the kiss,
    You supply the chance and I'll supply the bliss.
    You supply the truth and I'll supply the trust,
    You supply the time and I'll supply the lust.

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  22. I'll Be There

    • By Nubia Valle
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2007 with permission of the Author.

    A promise to a friend to be there no matter what.

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    I'll be there
    When you feel lonely and frightened,
    When you need help with something,
    When you feel hopeless.

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    Your bestie may move on, but still be there for him/her. They may still need you!

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