antanaclasis

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antanaclasis, a word used in two or more of its possible meanings, as in the final two lines of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The first use of “sleep” refers to nocturnal rest, the second to death.