Nine Rhetorical Devices - (3) Anadiplosis

Via @cultaltutor and Wikipedia.

Anadiplosis (/ænədɪˈploʊsɪs/ AN-ə-di-PLOH-sis; Greek: ἀναδίπλωσις, anadíplōsis, "a doubling, folding up") is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.

Example:

The years to come seemed waste of breath,

A waste of breath the years behind

  - W.B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"

Further examples:  

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer.

  - John Milton, Lycidas

Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard. Standard performance is sub-standard. Sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist.

  - Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny.

Having power makes [totalitarian leadership] isolated; isolation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear; suspicion and fear breed violence.

  - Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Permanent Purge: Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.