The line “willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike” is an example of :
Irony
The line comes from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735), in the satirical portrait of "Atticus", a thinly veiled picture of Joseph Addison.
Pope exposes a self-contradiction: Atticus wishes to hurt his rivals, yet lacks the courage to attack them openly. Presenting a man whose malice is undercut by his own timidity, so that his words say one thing while his conduct reveals another, is the essence of satiric irony.
The balanced phrasing does use parallel structure, but that is only the vehicle; what the line is celebrated for is the ironic exposure of the gap between Atticus's intention and his action.
Anaphora needs the same word repeated at the start of successive clauses, which does not happen here, and hip-hop is a modern musical form, not a rhetorical device.
Hence, Irony.
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