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Anaphora [1]

Poetry [2]
8.11.14

The Academy of American Poets defines anaphora as “a type of parallelism created when successive phrases or lines begin with the same words, often resembling a litany,” and is regarded as one of the world’s oldest poetic techniques. This week, try to write a poem with each line beginning with the same phrase. Refer to William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet No. 66” [3] or Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” [4] for inspiration.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/anaphora_1 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-technique-anaphora [4] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179381