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->''You're the cream in my coffee''
->''You're the salt in my stew''
->''You'll always be my necessity''
->''I'd be lost without you''

->''You're the starch in my collar''
->''You're the lace in my shoe''
->''You'll always be my necessity''
->''I'd be lost without you''

RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue is a subtrope. IDontLikeYouAndYouDontLikeMe examples have a chance to overlap with this if the {{Stock Phrase|s}} is split into multiple phrases with a comma or something. Contrast {{Symploce}}.

Mesodiplosis is a word formed of three parts:

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In [[Recap/FraggleRockS4E26TheHonkOfHonks "The Honk of Honks"]], Gobo notices that Doc can't see him. Cantus, when explaining to Gobo what he must do so that Doc will be able to see him, uses the word "touch" in three consecutive phrases.

When the shared words are nearly inconsequential ones like "and" or "of", then it just serves to make the parallelism more noticeable, but if the shared words are more consequential like nouns or multi-word phrases, then the parallelism is less likely to just be for being artistic with words, but to express some message about a difference or similarity between the phrases that share words.

* ''Fanfic/ThePetricultureCycle: Inscape'': "Prisoner's Base": Pinkie Pie's transformation chant that's made to have a lyrical / rhythmic quality, which "like a" Mesodiplosis helps with:

When the shared words are nearly inconsequential ones like "and" or "of", then it just serves to make the parallelism more noticeable, but if the shared words are more consequential like nouns or multi-word phrases, then the parallelism is less likely to just be for being artistic with words, but instead actually also be used to express some message about a difference or similarity between the phrases that share words.

* ''Fanfic/ArrestYeMerryGentlemares'': Rainbow Dash describing what changed on some people, connecting all the changes with "has a":

** "The Duel": Jared's summarizing an event that occured between him and an "unsympathetic troll":

* ''Fanfic/ThePetricultureCycle: Inscape'': "Prisoner's Base": Pinkie Pie's transformation chant that's made to have a lyrical / rhythymic quality, which "like a" Mesodiplosis helps with:

---> "Get it free like Willy
---> In the jeans like Billie
---> You be poppin' like a wheelie"

---> "The doors we slammed
---> The plates we smashed"

-->''But you are not alone''
-->''And we're not out of hope''

--> "I can't touch you through the phone
--> Or kiss you through the universe"

--> "They get you ready to fight
--> The fuse is ready to blow"

----> "The amount of pills I'm taking
----> Counteracts the booze I'm drinking
----> And this vanity I'm breaking

----> Well, I'll choose the life I've taken
----> Never mind the friends I'm making
----> And the beauty that I'm faking"

---> "So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills
---> And give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill"

---> "You better run like the devil, 'cause they're never gonna leave you alone
---> You better hide up in the alley, 'cause they're never gonna find you a home"

---> "You don't believe in God, I don't believe in luck
---> They don't believe in us, but I believe we're the enemy!"

---> "I pushed a button and elected him to office and a
---> He pushed a button and it dropped a bomb
---> You pushed the button and could watch it on the television"

---> "Now I've got something you have to see
---> They put something inside of me"

---> "When you're young, you're sleepin'
---> With the love you're feelin'"

---> "Routine keeps me in line
---> Helps me pass the time
---> Helps me to sleep"

--> "Fall for your kiss
--> Slipped on your lips"

--> "Beating, Heart still beating for the cause
--> Feeding, soul still feeding from the loss
--> Aching, limbs are aching from the rush
--> Fading, you are fading from my sight"

--> "And the snow it was falling
--> The neon was calling
--> The music was low"

-->Revered by many -- I, too, revere him
-->Feared by many -- I, too, fear him

-->She was the caviar on his blintz, the cream in his coffee, the hole in his donut, and the cherry on his chocolate sundae, thought Doug Penrose as he looked at Katie through the haze of the Labor Day barbecue smoke, if only she’d stop nagging him about his weight.
-->G. Andrew Lundberg, Los Angeles, CA

--->Apples and quinces,
--->Lemons and oranges,
--->Plump unpeck'd cherries,
--->Melons and raspberries,

-->Now we will count to twelve
-->and we will all keep still.

--->''There is no emotion, there is peace.''
--->''There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.''
--->''There is no passion, there is serenity.''
--->''There is no chaos, there is harmony.''
--->''There is no death, there is the Force.''

--->''Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.''
--->''Through Passion, I gain Strength.''
--->''Through Strength, I gain Power.''
--->''Through Power, I gain Victory.''
--->''Through Victory my chains are Broken.''
--->''The Force shall free me.''

* ''Fanfic/ArrestYeMerryGentlemares'': Rainbow Dash describing what changed on some people, connecting all the changed with "has a":

* ''Fanfic/AmaranthineShadows'' (Creator/LilaGaela): In the seventh chapter, this is LostInTranslation from Spanish to English: Galatea suffers from a PTSD flashback episode about Icy tearing her wings. The narration establishes a metaphor between that traumatic event and a spider eating a butterfly trapped in its spiderweb, so the pain caused by the spider's venom is equaled to the pain provoked by the flashback. So we have: "The '''spider''''s venom gnawing at her insides. Of the '''spidery''' memory of her broken wings." In the original Spanish text, the word "arácnido" is located in the middle of both phrases and used as both a noun (arachnid) and an adjective (spidery) to reinforce the parallel.

* ''Fanfic/AmaranthineShadows'' (Creator/LilaGaela): In the seventh chapter, this is LostInTranslation from Spanish to English: Galatea suffers from a PTSD flashback episode about Icy tearing her wings. The narration establishes a metaphor between that traumatic event and a spider eating a butterfly trapped in its spiderweb, so the pain caused by the spider's venom is equaled to the pain provoked by the flashback. So we have: "The '''spider''''s venom gnawing at her insides. Of the '''spidery''' memory of her broken wings." In the original Spanish text, the word "arácnido" is located in the middle of both phrases and used as both a noun (arachnid) and an adjective (spidery).

When the shared words are nearly-inconseqential ones like "and" or "of", then it just serves to make the parallelism more noticable, but if the shared words are more consequential like nouns or multi-word phrases, then the parallelism is less likely to just be for being artistic with words, but instead actually also be used to express some message about a difference or similarity between the phrases that share words.

That English's usual word order is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), means that the simplest of these examples will share their verbs, and those aren't usually the most important part of a set of multiple sentences if they're the verb, especially because it can be much more implied, given how people do things within limits, so it's not always necessary to be precise on what's being done. For example: "Alice worked on the apple, Bob worked on the stone", the context that the first item is food and the second's non-edible implies that the two kinds of "work" can't be the same. You don't typically eat stones, after all. And "worked on" isn't doing much other than anchoring the statements in the past or present.

In other languages, which go subject-object-verb, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Japanese; the object frequently being the most important part of the sentence and stays in place when describing multiple interactions with the same object.

RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue is a subtrope. IDontLikeYouAndYouDontLikeMe examples have a chance to overlap with this if the {{Stock Phrase|s}} is split into multiple phrases with a comma or something.

* ''Fanfic/AmaranthineShadows'': In the seventh chapter, this is LostInTranslation from Spanish to English: Galatea suffers from a PTSD flashback episode about Icy tearing her wings. The narration establishes a metaphor between that traumatic event and a spider eating a butterfly trapped in its spiderweb, so the pain caused by the spider's venom is equaled to the pain provoked by the flashback. So we have: "The '''spider''''s venom gnawing at her insides. Of the '''spidery''' memory of her broken wings." In the original Spanish text, the word "arácnido" is located in the middle of both phrases and used as both a noun (arachnid) and an adjective (spidery).

--->''Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.