bicolon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pair of adjacent lines of poetry in which the second echoes the meaning of the first

Word forms

bicolon bicolons

Etymology

From bi- + colon. Piecewise doublet of dicolon.

Related words

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