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7	'''You''' need '''what I want.'''\
8	'''You''' heed '''what I want.'''\
9	'''You''' bleed '''what I want.'''
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11	"Symploce", like its component parts of {{Anaphora}} and {{Epiphora}}, comes from an Ancient Greek word, συμπλοκή (''sumplokḗ''), meaning "interweaving". Symploce is defined as the presence of consecutive phrases, usually sentences, that start and end with the same words, without being exactly the same. Example: '''She'll buy this''' wine for my '''wife today.''' '''She'll buy this''' book for her '''wife today.'''
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13	Since it's basically {{Epiphora}} with extra requirements at the front, it similarly can occur in combination with RhymingWithItself.
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15	A common use of this is a character saying something like "I can't do it! I won't do it!", which is made more emphatic via repetition.
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17	OppositeTrope of {{Mesodiplosis}}, which is when the middle of the consecutive phrases repeat instead.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Fan Works]]
24	* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': When Abe Eiko's teasing Aino Sumiko about her HeIsNotMyBoyfriend starting with "We" and ending with "Out":
25	--> Aino Sumiko took a deep breath. "Anyway! 'Toru' equals 'worthless pig'. And…"\
26	"Aren't you still going out with him?"\
27	"We are not going out! We never went out! We… we just went places together as two people who just happen to be male and female.
28	* ''Fanfic/AGameOfCatAndCat'': "Another Chapter of Just Talking": Soma's relationship with his dominated souls, compared to another summoner about "you" and "us" souls:
29	--> You wanted us, you appreciate us, and you listen to us.
30	* From Creator/GigiDG's ''ComicBook/{{girlcutenicerobot}}'':
31	-->I find myself staring at him with a hatred so deep that it startles me.\
32	It grieves me.
33	* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': From ''Treasures'', in the second chapter, Daring, "she's" thrilled after passing "her first trap":
34	---> She'd found her first trap. She'd outwitted her first trap.
35	[[/folder]]
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37	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
38	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'''s song "We Don't Talk About Bruno": Split over multiple speakers:
39	-->'''Pepa:''' '''It was''' my '''wedding day'''
40	-->'''Félix:''' '''It was''' our '''wedding day'''
41	[[/folder]]
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43	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
44	* ''Film/CoolHandLuke'': At the beginning of the movie, Carr delivers the following lines:
45	--> '''Carr:''' Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box."
46	* ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid2007'': Eddie using it as an example for something for Lila to say to her boss to not need to relocate and instead stay with him, and ends up starting the formation of them marrying to stay together:
47	--> '''Eddie:''' Can't you just tell them, "I won't do it. I can't do it. I wanna be a researcher, but I'm not, you know, I'm not gonna..."
48	--> '''Lila:''' Eddie, this is my career. I can't say that.\
49	[...]\
50	'''Lila:''' So, they don't move married people. It's policy.
51	* ''Film/TheFly1986'':
52	** The tagline: Which adds a word to make it not a repeat of sentences: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
53	** The StinkSnub: Which starts with "changing" {{Epiphora}}, then "You [X] bad" symploce:
54	--->'''Veronica:''' You're changing, Seth; everything about you is changing. You look bad. You ''smell'' bad.
55	* ''Film/LutherTheFallenSun'': "I can't do it. I won't do it." when talking about breaking someone's kneecaps.
56	* ''Film/PhantasmIIILordOfTheDead'': The Tall Man uses a symploce as a reply to Reggie:
57	--> '''Reggie:''' It's all over.
58	--> '''The Tall Man:''' It's never over.
59	* ''Film/TheTerminator'': Reese describes the Terminator to Sarah with these words: "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with."
60	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Roger is confronted with proof that his wife cheated on him.
61	-->'''Roger:''' I just don't believe it! I won't believe it! I can't believe it! I shan't believe it!
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64	[[folder:Literature]]
65	* In ''Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks'', an in-game book named ''Five Songs of [[EternalHero King Wulfharth]]'' has the titular character asking his soldiers three WhereDoYouThinkYouAre questions at the face of Red Mountain that take {{Anaphora}} and turn it into symploce:
66	-->[[TimeCrash "Don't you see where you really are?]] Don't you know who Shor [[GodInHumanForm really is?]] Don't you know [[RealityIsOutToLunch what this war is?"]]
67	* The "For Want of a Nail" proverb-turned-poem traces its origins as far back as the 14th century, making this OlderThanPrint. Probably the most well-known version is the one which appeared in Creator/BenjaminFranklin's ''Poor Richard's Almanac'':
68	-->For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
69	--> For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
70	--> For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
71	--> For want of a rider, the message was lost;
72	--> For want of the message, the battle was lost;
73	--> For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
74	--> And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
75	* ''Gift from the Sea'' by Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "Each cycle of [X] is valid".
76	-->''Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide '''is valid''', each cycle of the wave '''is valid''', each cycle of a relationship '''is valid'''.''
77	* The Ring verse in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
78	--> One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
79	--> One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
80	* ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'': A 2003 runner-up by Francis Heaney which is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' by reusing its first two sentences:
81	--> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; I know that's a contradiction but bear with me.
82	* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': From ''Princesses in the Darkest Depths'': "I have [x] them"
83	--> "There are wonders in this world," the cook explained, "things that were brought to life by this secret [Spice of Life] and roam the world still. I have met with them; I have studied them and been instructed by them.
84	* ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' starts with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
85	[[/folder]]
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87	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
88	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': ''Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot'': Multiple:
89	** Kettlewell protesting against being party to the nuclear bombardment of the world:
90	---> '''Kettlewell:''' I can't do it! I won't do it!
91	** When the K1 Robot is warning invaders to the bomb shelter he just exited:
92	---> '''K1 Robot:''' You must go or I will kill. I must kill you. I must destroy you.
93	* ''Series/{{Galavant}}'': Most of the verse lines in "Togetherness" begin and especially end the same way, though the changing middles show how the veneer of amiability is cracking.
94	-->'''Galavant:''' We eat together
95	-->'''Isabella:''' We drink together
96	-->'''Sid:''' We work in perfect sync together
97	-->[...]
98	-->'''Isabella:''' They fight together
99	-->'''Sid:''' They glare together
100	-->'''All:''' We breathe each other's air together
101	* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': "Could We Start Again, Please?":
102	--> '''Arizona:''' I can't do it. I won't do it.
103	* ''Series/NewGirl'': [[Recap/NewGirlS7E8 "Engram Pattersky"]]:
104	--> '''Schmidt:''' But I'm not doing the insurance. I won't do it. I can't do it.
105	* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': "End of Nights, Part I": The first lines of the episode, Will trying to avoid [[spoiler:coming up with a nickname for]] Clara:
106	--> '''Will:''' Clara... [sighs]... I, I-- I can't do it. I won't do it, actually.
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109	[[folder:Music]]
110	* "Locust" by Music/AHa:
111	--> I don't know, make it.\
112	I don't know, shake it.
113	* The chorus of "I Want You To Want Me" by Music/CheapTrick
114	--> I want you to want me.\
115	I need you to need me.\
116	I'd love you to love me.\
117	I'm beggin' you to beg me.
118	* "Tightrope Walker" by Music/ClanOfXymox has these lyrics:
119	--> It is the state I'm in.\
120	It is the shape I'm in.
121	* "Jupiter 5" by Music/{{Infadels}}:
122	--> I was shooting for the stars.\
123	I was aiming at the stars.
124	* "Heaven" by Music/NewNavy has these lyrics:
125	--> It's not the kind of thing we can talk about.
126	--> It's not the kind of thing we can laugh about.
127	* The end of Music/NineInchNails' "[[Music/BrokenAlbum Last]]".
128	--> "'''I want you to''' make '''me'''\
129	'''I want you to''' take '''me'''\
130	'''I want you to''' break '''me'''\
131	Then '''I want you to''' throw '''me''' away"
132	* In the bridge of "[[Music/NevermindAlbum Lithium]]" by Music/{{Nirvana}}:
133	-->'''I''' like it, '''I'm not gonna crack'''\
134	'''I''' miss '''you, I'm not gonna crack'''\
135	'''I''' love '''you, I'm not gonna crack'''\
136	'''I''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick killed]] '''you, I'm not gonna crack'''
137	* "Driver 8" by Music/{{REM}}:
138	--> But it's still a ways away\
139	But we're still a ways away\
140	But it's still a ways away
141	* The second half of the bridge in Music/SystemOfADown's "Music/ChopSuey":
142	--> "Why have you '''forsaken me'''?\
143	'''In your''' eyes '''forsaken me'''\
144	'''In your''' thoughts '''forsaken me'''\
145	'''In your '''heart '''forsaken me''', oh"
146	* The second verse of Music/{{Tool}}'s "[=Ænema=]":
147	-->'''Fret for your''' figure, '''and'''\
148	'''Fret for your''' latte, '''and'''\
149	'''Fret for your''' lawsuit, '''and'''\
150	'''Fret for your''' hairpiece, '''and'''\
151	'''Fret for your''' Prozac, '''and'''\
152	'''Fret for your''' pilot, '''and'''\
153	'''Fret for your''' contract, '''and'''\
154	'''Fret for your''' car
155	* Music/{{Yello}}: The [[LimitedLyricsSong minimalist lyrics]] of "Oh Yeah" contain a minor recurring symploce:
156	-->'''The''' moon, '''beautiful'''\
157	'''The''' sun, even more '''beautiful'''
158	* ''Music/BruceSpringsteen'': In the bridge from "My City of Ruins":
159	-->With these hands, with these hands I pray Lord,\
160	With these hands, with these hands I pray for the strength, Lord,\
161	With these hands, with these hands I pray for the faith, Lord,\
162	With these hands, with these hands I pray for your love, Lord,\
163	With these hands, with these hands I pray the lost,Lord,\
164	With these hands, with these hands I pray for the world, Lord...\
165	[[/folder]]
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167	[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
168	* There's Creator/JeffFoxworthy's most famous comedy bit, "You Might Be a Redneck", usually involving at least a dozen traits that would qualify one as a redneck. The structure for each one is "If [insert qualifying trait here], you might be a redneck."
169	-->'''If''' your richest relative buys a new house and you have to help take the wheels off of it, '''you might be a redneck'''.\
170	'''If''' the UFO hotline limits you to one call per day, '''you might be a redneck'''.\
171	'''If''' you've been on television more than five times describing what the tornado sounded like, '''you might be a redneck'''.\
172	''(et cetera)''
173	[[/folder]]
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175	[[folder:Tabletop Game]]
176	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Goblin Lookout (Legions): FlavorText:
177	--> Throw rocks at 'em! Throw spears at 'em! Throw Furt at 'em!
178	* ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'': Found on community chest/chance cards. Used to say when something must be done NOW. For instance, the "go to jail" card combines a two-line symploce with a two-line anaphora:
179	--> '''Go''' to '''jail''', '''go''' directly to '''jail''', do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
180	[[/folder]]
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182	[[folder:Web Original]]
183	* ''Roleplay/PuellaMagiAdfligoSystema'': An encouragement of love and caring in "Surface Tension pt. 16":
184	--> Give her a chance. Give ''yourself'' a chance.
185	* ''WebOriginal/TwentyThousandTwenty'': At the end of Nine's speech about Eugene Jennings:
186	-->'' '''It's all''' he '''ever wanted'''. '''It's all''' we '''ever wanted'''.''
187	[[/folder]]
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189	[[folder:Western Animation]]
190	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A ShoutOut to the first lines of ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times": In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]", Mr. Burns shows Homer his thousand MonkeysOnATypewriter who are writing him the greatest novel ever written. He scolds one of them after typing "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."
191	[[/folder]]
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193	[[folder:Real Life]]
194	* "When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." -- US President Bill Clinton
195	* "Let England have its navigation and fleet--let Scotland have its navigation and fleet--let Wales have its navigation and fleet--let Ireland have its navigation and fleet--let those four of the constituent parts of the British empire be under four independent governments, and it is easy to perceive how soon they would each dwindle into comparative insignificance." -- ''The Federalist'' No. 4
196	[[/folder]]

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