Someone in class said something about Wu Tang Clan lyrics, then someone in class said something about isolcolon and some other terminological terminologies (hypotaxis and isocolon!) . I then decided to make the two thoughts into one. What better example of isocolon is there than rap lyrics? None. Here's Inspectah Deck from the Wu song, "Do You Really (Thang Thang)":
"We thrive on street life
We strive to eat right
They blind and need sight
We tried to be nice
They talk the small talk
We walk the long walk
We lost, they all thought
They forced to fall short
We rock for hard rock
Rocked the hot blocks
Shop and cop rocks"
It is typical hip-hop braggadocios, thuggery, and crack-cocaine sale, but that is the best sustained isolcolon I have seen or heard since I listened to Eazy. The imitation in prose:
We thrive on street life. We strive to eat right. Other people don't see things as they truly are. We (the Clan of Wu Tang) tried to be nice to them, but they talk small-talk and we walk-the-talk so to speak. They thought they had the better of us but were wrong and fell short of us. We rock hard, rock places that are hard, and buy and sell crack-cocaine.
Ruined.
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