Paromoiosis (par-o-moy-o’-sis): Parallelism of sound between the words of adjacent clauses whose lengths are equal or approximate to one another. The combination of isocolon and assonance.
I look out my hard frosted window.
I take my eyes to the soft darkening glow.
I watch the tinted crust of weeks-old snow.
No man. No husband. No father. No lover. No daughter. No son.
Empty. Untrodden. Pristine. Untouched. He will not come.
What is done, is done.
I am a widow gouged by my loss.
You are the “grateful nation”
who “appreciate my husband’s service”
and see his death as a warranted cost.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
