recurring adj. recursive

[The difference between recurrent and recursive is that recurrent is recurring time after time while recursive is drawing upon itself, referring back.] Edward Lear’s limericks are a screwball assemblage of people (often an Old Man or Old Person) from places with names that make for satisfyingly clanking rhymes. The poems are generally recursive — if we meet an Old Man of Calcutta in Line 1, we’re going to see him again in Line 5. (David Orr, “There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely,” The New York Times, 08/24/2018.)

This word can also be synonymous with repeating and repetitive.