Whether you have the pre-exposure Rabies vaccination or not, and are bitten, scratched, or licked on broken skin by a potentially rabid animal, it is very important to get to a medical facility immediately.
Refrain, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza. Refrains are found in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and are common in primitive tribal chants. They appear in literature as varied as ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin verse, popular ballads, and Renaissance and Romantic lyrics.
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: (1) A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at regular intervals: a refrain. Adjective: epanaleptic. (2) Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began: a combination of anaphora and epistrophe. See Examples and Observations, below.