a.naph.o.ra n. [LLat. Gk. anapherein, to repeat: ana-, again + pherein,
to carry] The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning
of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.
One of the devices of repetition, in which the same phrase is repeated at
the beginning of two or more lines.
Example:
Poetry of Walt Whitman
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "And Brutus is an honorable man."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Graham, Vicki, Bishop's 'At the Fishhouses.' (Elizabeth Bishop).,
Vol. 53, The Explicator, 01-01-1995, pp 114(4).
"The suspension broken, repetition and anaphora set up a new rhythm
which is as compelling and variable as the sea's:
I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly,
indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones,
above the stones and then the world."