Cohesion is a term used in linguistic analyses
of texts such as those undertaken in stylistics, in reference to
the degrees and kinds of internal connection that link different parts of the
same text. Cohesion between one sentence, stanza or other unit, and another may
be established by sound-patterns such as metre, rhyme, and alliteration,
or by pronominal back-reference (she, those, etc.), or by the use of similar syntactical
constructions or by conjunctions and similar linking phrases (nor, however,
consequently, etc.).