1. Epanalepsis
Or “Love is something only understood by those who are no longer in love.”

2. Definition and Usage
Definition: repeating a word at the beginning and end of a clause or sentence.
Usage:
The areas of strongest emphasis are at the beginning and ends of sentences, and epanalepsis capitalizes on them.
Show a truth and then put it in context.

3. Add emphasis at the beginning and ends of sentences
"Control, control, you must learn control.“
Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
“Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe.”
— Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Matthew 7:12 NCV
To report that your committee is still investigating the matter is to tell me that you have nothing to report.

4. Show a truth and then put it in context.
"In the run-up to Christmas we will publicly disembowel anyone heard using the phrase 'in the run-up to Christmas.'“
(Michael Bywater, The Chronicles of Bargepole. Jonathan Cape, 1992)
"Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread.“
(Conrad Aiken, "Bread and Music," 1914)
"Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.“
(Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright")

5. Show a truth and then put it in context
"Nothing is worse than doing nothing.“
"But I ain't goin' no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I wanna die, I'll die right here, right now fightin' you -- if I wanna die.“
Delivered by Will Smith (from the movie Ali)
"A minimum wage that is not a livable wage can never be aminimum wage."
-- Ralph Nader
"I ask you to consider the evidence. Don't turn away from the truth. Don't turn away from your conscience. Please, don't ignore the law. No, embrace that higher principle for which the law was meant to serve: Justice -- that's all I ask --  justice."
-- delivered by Denzel Washington (from the movie The Hurricane)

6. Show a truth and then put it in context
“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always beentimes like these.”
— Paul Harvey
“The King is dead, long live the King!”
— Traditional Proclamation
A question for which there is no answer is still a question, but an answer for which there is no question is no answer.
"Believe not all you can hear, tell not all you believe."
—Native American proverb

7. Show a truth and then put it in context
Our eyes saw it, but we could not believe our eyes.
The theory sounds all wrong; but if the machine works, we cannot worry about theory.
In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.
--John 16:33 (NASB)
Ali’s worst enemy, as was often the case – like the time he backed over his dog on the way out of the driveway, like the time he insulted his prospective boss’s daughter before a job interview, like the time he slept through his final exams – was Ali. (--Palise)
Notice anything other than epanalepsis in there? Periodic Sentence? Commoratio? Anaphora?

8. Practice? We’re just talking about practice?
Write five sentences that utilize epanalepsis. Easy it won’t be, but most things that are worth doing aren’t easy.