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If a poet starts several lines with the same word or phrase, what effect has he or she created?

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In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme.

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I think it's called anaphora

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