In poetry, which word, deriving from the Greek for 'carrying back', is given to the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences or verses to emphasize an image or a concept?
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd emotional response. According to Warren, Whitman "uses "anaphora", the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines; "epistrophe", the repetition of the same words or phrase at the end of lines, and "symploce" (the combined use of "anaphora" and "epistrophe"), the repetition of both initial and terminal words. According to Raja Sharma, Whitman's use of "anaphora" forces the reader "to inhale several bits of text without pausing for breath, and this breathlessness contributes to the incantatory quality". This sense of incantation in the poem and for the framework for the expansive lyricism that scholars have called "cataloguing".
Word chain Words (Russian: слова). Writing poetry following the same principle is called "capping verses." Various other variants exist, such as Ancient Greek skolion. Word chain Word chain, also known as Grab on Behind, Last and First, Alpha and Omega, and The Name Game. is a word game in which players come up with words that begin with the letter or letters that the previous word ended with. A category of words is usually chosen, there is a time limit such as five seconds, and words may not be repeated in the same game. An example chain for food would be: Soup