Why “epanalepsis” is a great word
EPANALEPSIS — [Noun] A rhetorical device in which the same word or clause is repeated at the beginning and end of a phrase or sentence, with intervening matter. From Latin epanalepsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπανάληψις (epanálēpsis, "resumption, repetition"), from ἐπαναλαμβάνω (epanalambánō, "to take up again"), from ἐπί (epí, "upon") + ἀνά (aná, "back, again") + λαμβάνω (lambánō, "to take"). First attested in English in 1584. Unlike anaphora, which hammers a point with opening repetitions, or epistrophe, which lands successive blows at a clause's end, epanalepsis is the circular frame, the act of picking up a thread only to knot it where you began. It is the poet's closing of a braided loop—“The king is dead, long live the king”; the politician's sealed argument—“Justice must be served, and it will be, justice”; the lover’s quiet enclosure of a world within a word—“Alone, we are never alone.” It is the grammatical shape of a journey that ends where it began, now weighted with all it has witnessed.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin epanalepsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπανάληψις (epanálēpsis), from ἐπαναλαμβάνω (epanalambánō), from ἐπί (epí) + ἀνά (aná) + λαμβάνω (lambánō).