Anaphora
remork a rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or
phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines,
clauses, or sentences. Found very often in both verse and prose, it was a
device favoured by Dickens and used frequently in the free verse of Walt
Whitman. These lines by Emily Dickinson illustrate the device:
Mine—by the
Right of the White Election! Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the Sign in the
Scarlet prison Bars—cannot conceal
