The isocolon It is a rhetorical or literary figure related to parallelism, which consists of the equality or similarity in the syllabic length of various clauses or sequences in prose, that is, phrases that are divided into syntactic members of similar composition. For example: Difficult is the way, difficult is the journey.
It is a figure of repetition and belongs to the group of figures of speech. The repeated structure can be a word, a phrase or an expression. It is similar to the isosyllabism of poetry (the repetition of the number of syllables in the verses).
Examples of isocolon
- They clean the hull, tune the traps
the iron set, they scrub great caps
they mend coats, edges give to swords
look for the grevas, look at the caps…
some cult nightingale sing to me
-sweet prodigy crowned by the wind-
hidden in the same feathers
the musician, the muse, the instrument.
(Luis de Gongora) - There is no word of the prince that does not have its effect: said about business, they are orders; about crimes, sentences, and about promises, obligation.
(Saavedra Fajardo) - to his deaf sighs,
to their prayers, terrible,
to your promises, rock.
(Tirso de Molina) - We saw him born, we saw him grow.
- White as milk, white as clouds.
- Have a gift, have a gift.
- Sing with desire, sing with passion.
- We laugh loud, we cry low.
- Let’s sing, with brio. Let’s sing, with tenacity.
- Come, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).
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