Isocolon
Isocolon is a rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables.[2] The term, a compound of ἴσος ísos 'equal' and κῶλον kôlon 'member, clause' was used in the classical Greek rhetorical literature: ...εἶδος δὲ τοῦ παρομοίου τὸ ἰσόκωλον, ἐπὰν ἴσας ἔχῃ τὰ κῶλα τὰς συλλαωάς...[9] Winston Churchill used the tricolon frequently, as in his June 1941 speech regarding the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when he stated "It is a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations is engaged without distinction of race, creed or party.This phrase appears in print in Chicago as early as 1926,[12] but is nonetheless frequently credited, incorrectly, to the British real estate magnate Lord Harold Samuel.")Another example can be cited from Richard II, by Shakespeare[16][17] I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,My gay apparel for an almsman’s gown,My figured goblets for a dish of wood.A special type of collocation known as an irreversible binomial is a bicolon that is both short and so well known that it becomes a fixed expression.