1 Chapter 5 Syntactic Overregularity  Definition: the repetition of certain linguistic units of a tex t and in parallelism, where some features vary while other s are kept constant. Namely, it includes repetition and parall elism.  Repetition is restricted to mean the case of exact copying of a certain previous unit in a text, such as word, phrase or even a sentence, which subsumes immediate repetition and intermittent repetition.

 Immediate repetition:the repeated unit immediately follows the initial unit.  for example:  Do not go gentle into that good night,  Old age should burn and rave at close of day,  Rage,rage againt the dying of light.  Notes:Rage is repeated 8 times in this poem,thus great emphasis is attached on the item,and also on the whole theme of the poem:one should struggle violently against death.The repetition serves to combine the lines together and to give unity to the idea expressed.

3  Do not go gentle into that good night,  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;  Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,  Because their words had forked no lightning they  Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright  Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,  Rage, rage against the dying of the light. .

4  Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,  And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,  Do not go gentle into that good night.  Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight  Blind eyes could blaze like 4)meteors and be gay,  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.  And you, my father, there on the sad height,  Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.  Do not go gentle into that good night.  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

5 Example 2  Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!  Bright and yellow, hard and cold,  Molten, graven, hammer’d and roll’d,  Heavy to get and light to hold. (Thomas Hood)  “Gold” is repeated four times and reinforced by the capital ization of the first letter and the exclamation mark. It implic ates the poet’s great intensity of feeling when talking about gold.

6 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.

7 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.

8 Example 3  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promise to keep,  And miles to go before I sleep.  Here the repetition implies “ there is a long way to go before I die.”and the author is rather weary of the journey he takes.