Context

Hardy wrote "The Voice" after the sudden death of his first wife, Emma, in 1912; it belongs to the "Poems of 1912–13," his elegies of guilt and grief for the marriage that had grown cold before she died. In the opening line the bereaved speaker hears Emma seeming to call to him across the distance of death, uncertain whether the sound is her ghost or only the wind moving over the wet meadow.

How the repetition works

Phrasal repetition — a multi-word unit repeated adjacently, functioning more like refrain or incantation than single-word emphasis. About this distinction →

The phrase "call to me" is repeated immediately, with nothing between the two iterations, so the line itself echoes—the second "call to me" sounding like the fading reverberation of the first. Here epizeuxis works not to intensify force but to enact acoustic distance: the doubled, trailing phrase mimics a voice carrying from far off and dying away, turning emphasis into longing.