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• But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strong loves.
    - Shakespeare, Othello 3.3
  The idea of affection occurs in "dotes" and "strongly loves"; the idea of doubting in "doubts" and "suspects". These two ideas occur in the quotation in an A B B A order, thus repeated and inverted.
• It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling.   -The pattern is present participle-infinitive; infinitive-present participle.
  

Repetition of ideas in inverted order. "A-B-B-A" arrangement of words.