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'''You need''' each sentence to start the same way\\
'''You need''' an [[TitleDrop anaphora]]!\\
'''You need''' to add [[RepeatedForEmphasis impact]] and rhythm\\
'''You need''' to make it easier to remember\\
'''You need''' to use this device for [[SpeechesAndMonologues speeches]] or {{Poetry}}\\
'''You need''' rhymes and easy repetitions?\\
'''You need''' an {{epiphora}}!\\
'''You need''' to mix the two?\\
'''You need''' {{Symploce}}!\\
'''You need''' to compare with GroundhogDayLoop, where each day is the same and could start the same way consecutively\\
'''You need''' to [[OlderThanFeudalism go before feudalism]] and find this trope\\
'''You need''' to trace it back to religion\\
'''You need''' to know that [[LoopedLyrics repeating the exact same full sentence]] [[MadnessMantra multiple times]] doesn't count as an anaphora.\\
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* TheNineties Bagel Bites jingle is based on [=The McGuire Sisters=]' "Sugartime":
-->'''Pizza in the''' morning, '''pizza in the''' evening, '''pizza''' at supper'''time'''
* That device has been used for slogans. For example, Kit Kat's "'''''Have a''' break, '''have a''' Kit Kat''".
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* A rare visual example: ''Francis Blaireau Farceur'' is a French comic book series about a badger named Francis. Each story begins with the same panel which shows Francis strolling with the accompanying text: "''Francis is strolling in the countryside.''"
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* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': When Abe Eiko's teasing Aino Sumiko about her HeIsNotMyBoyfriend starting with a {{Symploce}} starting with "We" and ending with "Out", because she's talking about the topic of going out with him, and then turns into a {{Anaphora}} to transition the topic to them as a couple:
--> Aino Sumiko took a deep breath. "Anyway! 'Toru' equals 'worthless pig'. And…"\\
"Aren't you still going out with him?"\\
"We are not going out! We never went out! We… we just went places together as two people who just happen to be male and female.
* ''Fanfic/AGameOfCatAndCat'': "When was the last time I", when wondering how much he has missed:
--> Naoki could describe Daisuke's shoes, but what did they ''sound'' like?\\
''When was the last time I heard them?''\\
''When was the last time I saw Daisuke?''
* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': Chapter 4: "Do you" because questioning:
--> Kazuya put down his laptop. "Do you have any idea who could have done this? Do you have any enemies?"
* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'':
** ''Fanfic/{{Oversaturation}}'': "Spectrum": When Sunset remembers, "She remembered", events to try to help her make a choice:
---> She remembered Rainbow Dash's joy, and thought of how she'd react to losing her wings.\\
She remembered Octavia's fear, and thought of how she'd react to losing her fingers.\\
She remembered one of Princess Celestia's lessons on negotiation.\\
"If you find yourself caught between two unpleasant choices," the princess had said, "then there's probably a third, better one the other party doesn't want you to pick."
** ''Group Precipitation'': "A Shot of Gin on a Cold Night, by Masterweaver": Juniper Montage complaining about Sunset Shimmer and her friends:
---> Stupid Wondercolts. Stupid uncle. Stupid horse-girl-[[spoiler:deity]]!
* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'':
** "Any": When Sailears reports to his uncle:
---> The little elephant considered. “I met the king of the donkeys, I think! I asked him about his fleet.”\\
“Oh?” Trumpeter smiled. “And what did he say about it, Your Grace? Any comparisons to our own? Any positions? Any plans?”
** ''Treasures'':
*** From the first chapter of with "Plenty": Gallivant talking about his packed schedule:
----> '''Gallivant:''' Plenty of work to be done tonight, and plenty more tomorrow.
*** From the fifth chapter, when Gallivant and Old Chestnut do some "hard negotiation", a.k.a brawl for archeological credit, and Daring's wondering why her dad's putting himself in so much pain:
----> Was it for his own pride’s sake? Was it to make somepony else proud? Was that somepony Daring? Was it Mom?
* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': The first chapter has Spell Nexus talking about how important "tonight" is, to his cult:
--> '''Spell Nexus:''' For it is tonight we give this essence of our queen life of its own. It is tonight our queen’s shackles to the meek Princess Luna shall be broken forever. And it is tonight that our campaign to retake Equestria begins!
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''[='s=] song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King"
-->'''No one sayin' ''' "Do this"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "Be there"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "Stop that"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "See here"
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', General W. R. Monger says this line to the [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President]]:
-->'''We need''' a Hail Mary pass. '''We need''' raw power. '''We need...''' monsters.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', after accidentally wishing he had never been born, Shrek has to convince Fiona that she's his true love. He does so by telling her everything he knows about her:
-->'''Shrek:''' '''I know''' you sing so beautifully that birds explode. '''I know''' that when you sign your name, you put a heart over the i. '''I know''' that when you see a shooting star you cross your fingers on both hands, squinch up your nose, and you make a wish, '''I know''' that you don't like the covers wrapped around your feet, and '''I know''' that you sleep by candlelight because every time you close your eyes, you're afraid you're going to wake up back in that tower.
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* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': The Malibu Police Chief lists every quality he detests about the Dude, starting and ending each sentence with the same words.
-->'''I don’t like your jerk-off''' name.\\
'''I don’t like your jerk-off''' face.\\
'''I don't like your jerk-off''' behaviour.\\
'''And, I don't like''' you. '''Jerk-off'''.
* This verse sung by Jack's mother in the first song in ''Film/IntoTheWoods'':
-->'''I wish''' my son were not a fool\\
'''I wish''' my house was not a mess\\
'''I wish''' the cow was full of milk\\
'''I wish''' the walls were full of gold\\
'''I wish''' a lot of things
* The titular hero of ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' is fed-up with the RaceAgainstTheClock concerning his lifespan and delivers a RageBreakingPoint induced spiel:
-->'''I want''' room service!\\
'''I want''' the club sandwich!\\
'''I want''' the cold Mexican beer!\\
'''I want''' a $10,000-a-night hooker!\\
'''I want''' my shirts laundered...
* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'' when a man is holding City Hall hostage to get an old job back:
-->Man: '''And I want''' a bigger office! '''And I want''' a new car! '''And I want''' the city to pay for it all!
* Subverted at the end of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', when Peter Parker tells the viewer this:
-->Peter Parker: '''No matter''' what I do, '''no matter''' how hard I try, the ones I love will always be the ones who pay.
* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'': Both the movie itself and the [[ShowWithinAShow silent films for which the Three Amigos were famous]] ended with the Amigos announcing, "'''Wherever there is''' injustice, you will find us. '''Wherever there is''' suffering, we'll be there. '''Wherever''' liberty is threatened, you will find The Three Amigos!"
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* The 29th psalm of the ''Literature/BookOfPsalms'' (whether is it the original Hebrew version or the King James Version, other versions give similar results) may be the first example of an anaphora:
-->'''The voice of the LORD''' is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' is powerful; '''the voice of the LORD''' is full of majesty.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.\\
(...)\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' divideth the flames of fire.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
* ''Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest'':
** The 1987 winner, uses "ya":
---> The notes blatted skyward as the sun rose over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically peddling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by Nature’s maxim, “Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,” and at last I knew Pittsburgh. — Sheila B. Richter, Minneapolis, MN
** The 1988 winner uses "A man" to prefix a list of qualities:
---> Like an expensive sports car, fine-tuned and well-built, Portia was sleek, shapely, and gorgeous, her red jumpsuit molding her body, which was as warm as the seatcovers in July, her hair as dark as new tires, her eyes flashing like bright hubcaps, and her lips as dewy as the beads of fresh rain on the hood; she was a woman driven – fueled by a single accelerant – and she needed a man, a man who wouldn’t shift from his views, a man to steer her along the right road, a man like Alf Romeo.
* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': A couple of Eliana's chapters in ''Lightbringer'' repeat the phrase "When Eliana awoke..." to accentuate the repetitive nature of her mind-speak induced dreams-turned-nightmares at the hands of Corien.
* Jesus delivers another famous one, known as the Beatitudes, in his [[Literature/TheFourGospels Sermon on the Mount]]:
--> And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
--> '''Blessed are''' the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
--> '''Blessed are''' the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
--> '''Blessed are''' the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
--> '''Blessed are''' the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
--> '''Blessed are''' the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
--> '''Blessed are''' you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
* The [[spoiler:Hiver]] doubles this up with RuleOfThree in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'':
--> "''You build '''little''' worlds, '''little''' stories, '''little''' shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!''"
* Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade used anaphoras in several of his poems, such as in ''E agora José?'' (And now, José?):
-->“'''If you''' screamed,
-->'''if you''' moaned,
-->'''if you''' played
-->the Viennese waltz,
-->'''if you''' slept,
-->'''if you''' got tired,
-->'''if you''' died...
-->But you don't die,
-->you are tough, José!”
* ''For Want Of A Nail'' is a proverb-turned-poem which can be traced back to the [[OlderThanPrint 13th century]] and is about how one small omission can lead to huge grave consequences. Many variations of it exist, but all of them have each sentence beginning with "''For want of a...''".
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' by Creator/DanteAlighieri: one of the most famous examples of anaphora in literature can be found in third Canto of the Inferno, where the first three verses function as a self-introduction of the place itself (bonus points for being shown In-Universe as an inscription right above the In-Universe Gates of Hell).
-->'''Through me''' the way into [[{{Hell}} the]] [[CityOfTheDamned suffering city]],\\
'''through me''' the way to [[AndIMustScream eternal pain]],
-->'''through me''' the way that runs among the lost.
** In the fifth Canto of ''Inferno'', Francesca begins three of her stanzas in a row with the word "Amor." She does this to blame passion for her crimes and to sway Dante by appealing to his love of poetry and romance.
--->'''Love, that''' in gentle heart is quickly learnt,\\
Entangled him by that fair form, from me\\
Ta'en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still:\\
'''Love, that''' denial takes from none belov'd,\\
Caught me with pleasing him so passing well,\\
That, as thou see'st, he yet deserts me not.\\
'''Love''' brought us to one death: Caina waits\\
The soul, who spilt our life." Such were their words;
** In the thirteenth Canto of ''Paradiso'', three of the first four stanzas begins with the command "Let him imagine" as Dante tries to get across how beautiful the dance of the starry saints is.
--->'''Let him imagine''', who would rightly seize\\
what I saw now; and let him while I speak\\
retain that image like a steadfast rock;\\
in heaven's different parts, those fifteen stars\\
that quicken heaven with such radiance\\
as to undo the air's opacities;\\
'''let him imagine''', too, that Wain which stays\\
within our heaven's bosom night and day,\\
so that its turning never leaves our sight;\\
'''let him imagine''' those two stars that form\\
the mouth of that Horn which begins atop\\
the axle round which the first wheel revolves
* In ''Literature/TheDocumentsInTheCase'', Munting already knows more than he ever wanted to about the case, but can't keep himself from asking further questions.
-->'''I want to know''' whether [[spoiler:Lathom]] knows the sort of woman he did it for. '''I want to know''' how much she really knows or suspects. '''I want to know''' whether, when she wrote that letter which drove him to do it, she was deceiving him or herself. '''I want to know''' whether, in all these months, he has been thinking she was worth it...
* Halfway through the 37th canto of ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', the narrator emphasizes how numerous and similar the examples of discord are by beginning each like with "some of" and then describing some episode of discord.
-->''"And eke of priuate persons many moe,\\
That were too long a worke to count them all;\\
Some of sworne friends, that did their faith forgoe;\\
Some of borne brethren, prov'd vnnaturall;\\
Some of deare louers, foes perpetuall[.]"''
* Creator/WHAuden's "Funeral Blues" has an example of this [[TearJerker which may or may not trigger your tear glands just a little]]:
-->He was '''my''' North, '''my''' South, '''my''' East and West,\\
'''My''' working week and '''my''' Sunday rest,\\
'''My''' noon, '''my''' midnight, '''my''' talk, '''my''' song;\\
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
* This technique is used heavily throughout ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' to emphasize the main character's [[DoesNotLikeSpam distaste for the food]] while [[SelfImposedChallenge staying within the 50-word limit]]:
-->'''I do not like them''' in a house.\\
'''I do not like them''' with a mouse.\\
'''I do not like them''' here or there.\\
'''I do not like them''' anywhere.\\
'''I do not like''' green eggs and ham.\\
'''I do not like them''', Sam-I-Am.
* Joe Brainard's poem "I Remember":
-->'''I remember''' a piece of old wood with termites running around all over it the termite men found under our front porch.\\
'''I remember''' when one year in Tulsa by some freak of nature we were invaded by millions of grasshoppers for about three or four days.\\
'''I remember''', downtown, whole sidewalk areas of solid grasshoppers.\\
'''I remember''' a shoe store with a big brown x-ray machine that showed up the bones in your feet bright green.
* Creator/LangstonHughes' "Let America Be America Again"
-->'''I am the''' farmer, bondsman to the soil.\\
'''I am the''' worker sold to the machine.\\
'''I am the''' Negro, servant to you all.\\
'''I am the''' people, humble, hungry, mean
* Creator/WilliamBlake's "London":
-->'''In every''' cry of every man,\\
'''In every''' infant's cry of fear,\\
'''In every''' voice, in every ban,\\
The mind-forged manacles I hear
* Elie Wiesel's ''{{Literature/Night}}'':
-->'''Never shall I forget''' that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. '''Never shall I forget''' that smoke. '''Never shall I forget''' the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. '''Never shall I forget''' those flames which consumed my faith forever. '''Never shall I forget''' that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. '''Never shall I forget''' those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. '''Never shall I forget''' these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
* Creator/WaltWhitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking":
-->'''Out of the''' cradle endlessly rocking,\\
'''Out of the''' mock-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,\\
'''Out of the''' Ninth-month midnight,\\
(...)\\
'''Out''' from the patches of briers and blackberries,\\
'''From''' the memories of the bird that chanted to me,\\
'''From''' your memories, sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,\\
'''From''' under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,\\
'''From''' those beginning notes of yearning and love, there in the transparent mist,\\
'''From''' the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,\\
'''From''' the myriad thence-arous'd words,\\
'''From''' the word stronger and more delicious than any,\\
'''From''' such as now they start the scene revisiting,...
* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': ''Cookies and Campers'': To emphasize how things are starting from zero, "New":
--> '''Claire:''' New game, new characters, new adventure, right?
* Creator/TSEliot's "The Rock":
-->'''Where is the''' Life we have lost in living?\\
'''Where is the''' wisdom we have lost in knowledge?\\
'''Where is the''' knowledge we have lost in information?
* ''Literature/TheSongOfHiawatha'', being a deliberately archaic NarrativePoem, does this from the get-go and frequently throughout.
-->'''With the''' odors of the forest\\
'''With the''' dew and damp of meadows,\\
'''With the''' curling smoke of wigwams\\
'''With the''' rushing of great rivers\\
'''With their''' [[LampshadeHanging frequent repetitions]]...
* The first sentence of Creator/CharlesDickens' novel, ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'':
-->'''It was''' the best of times, '''it was''' the worst of times, '''it was the''' age of wisdom, '''it was the''' age of foolishness, '''it was the''' epoch of belief, '''it was the''' epoch of incredulity, '''it was the''' season of Light, '''it was the''' season of Darkness, '''it was the''' spring of hope, '''it was the''' winter of despair.
* Philip Levine's "They Feed They Lion"
-->'''Out of''' burlap sacks, '''out of''' bearing butter,\\
'''Out of''' black bean and wet slate bread,\\
'''Out of''' the acids of rage, the candor of tar,\\
'''Out of''' creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies,\\
They Lion grow.
* ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'': The 2001 honorable mention by Jason Melancon, uses "To" for talking about the future:
--> To stand tall, to humbly crawl; to laugh, to cry; to puke bitterly, to suck on come what may—​here follows my turbulent infancy.
* ''Literature/OurWivesUnderTheSea'': When Miri reminisces on how Leah used to be before she turned into an EmptyShell, four sentence in a row start with "'''I thought about'''".
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* The fourth season of ''Series/BabylonFive'' opens with this narration:
-->'''Lennier:''' It was the year of fire\\
'''Zack:''' '''the year''' of destruction\\
'''G'kar:''' '''the year''' we took back what was ours.\\
'''Lyta:''' It was the year of rebirth\\
'''Vir:''' '''the year''' of great sadness\\
'''Marcus:''' '''the year''' of pain\\
'''Delenn:''' and the year of joy.\\
'''Londo:''' '''It was''' a new age.\\
'''Dr. Franklin:''' '''It was''' the end of history.\\
'''Ivanova:''' '''It was''' the year everything changed.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Occurs during the "Space, The Final Frontier" monologue preceding the titles of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
-->These are the voyages of the starship ''Enterprise''.
-->[TOS: Its five-year mission/TNG: its continuing mission]: '''to''' explore strange new worlds,
-->'''to''' seek out new life and new civilizations,
-->'''to''' boldly go where no [TOS: man/TNG: one] has gone before.
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* Music/RickAstley:
** The chorus of "Never Gonna Give You Up":
--->'''Never gonna''' give you up\\
'''Never gonna''' let you down\\
'''Never gonna''' run around and desert you\\
'''Never gonna''' make you cry\\
'''Never gonna''' say goodbye\\
'''Never gonna''' tell a lie and hurt you
** In "Never Gonna Stop", the chorus begins each line with the phrase "never gonna," the bridge features "I don't think" at the start of each line (with the occasional "no" tossed in), and the outro begins each line with "tell me."
* Music/RobCantor: "I'm Gonna Win" makes heavy use of this. For example, the part preceding the chorus uses "'til I'm" four times in a row, and then switches to "it's hard to...":
-->'''I'll never give''' up\\
'''I'll never give''' in\\
''''Til''' I'm bloody and bruised\\
''''Til''' I've broken my bones\\
''''Til''' I won't be abused\\
''''Til''' I'm laughing alone\\
'''It's hard to''' be charming and smart and disarming\\
'''It's hard to''' pretend you're the best\\
'''It's hard to''' fulfill everyone's expectations\\
'''It's hard to''' keep up with the rest
* Music/JohnnyCash's "I Walk The Line"
-->'''I keep''' a close watch on this heart of mine\\
'''I keep''' my eyes wide open all the time\\
'''I keep''' the ends out for the tie that binds
* Music/Current93's "I Have A Special Plan For This World":
-->'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' suddenly\\
'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' gradually\\
'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' painlessly\\
'''There is''' the death that is full of pain
* Music/BobDylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" has three different short anaphoras:
-->'''How many''' roads must a man walk down\\
Before you call him a man?\\
'''How many''' seas must the white dove sail\\
Before she sleeps in the sand?\\
(...)\\
'''The answer''', my friend, is blowin' in the wind\\
'''The answer''' is blowin' in the wind\\
(...)\\
'''Yes, and how many years''' can a mountain exist\\
'Fore it is washed to the sea?\\
'''Yes, and how many years''' can some people exist\\
Before they're allowed to be free?\\
'''Yes, and how many''' times can a man turn his head\\
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
* Ira and Music/GeorgeGershwin's "I Got Rhythm"
-->'''I got''' rhythm\\
'''I got''' music\\
'''I got''' my girl\\
Who could ask for anything more?
* Music/GoodKid's "Nomu" contains a section where every line starts with "of every":
-->A tiny piece\\
'''Of every''' part\\
'''Of every''' heart\\
'''Of every''' stone\\
'''Of every''' grave
* The children's song "I Know An Old Lady", in which every refrain adds a new line beginning with "'''She swallowed the''' [animal]".
* The hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives"
-->'''He lives''' triumphantly from the grave
-->'''He lives''' eternally to save
-->'''He lives''' exalted throned above
-->'''He lives''' to rule his church in love
* Music/ShayferJames: "First Date" has most of the lines in its verses start with "my first..."
-->'''My first''' kiss was in a cemetery\\
'''My first''' drink was in a church\\
'''My first''' father was a mercenary\\
And '''my first''' lover was a curse\\
'''My first''' enemy became my friend to me, for what it's worth
* Music/{{Jhariah}}: "To Take for Granted.":
-->'''I don’t take the''' sea for granted, it could dry any time it wants\\
'''I don’t take the''' sky for granted, it could fall anytime it pleases\\
'''I don’t take the''' land for granted, it could flood anytime this year
* Music/JohnDenver's "Annie's Song":
-->'''Like a''' night in a forest\\
'''Like''' the mountains in springtime\\
'''Like a''' walk in the rain\\
'''Like a''' storm in the desert\\
'''Like a''' sleepy blue ocean
* Music/BruceJohnston's grammy-winning ballad "I Write The Songs":
-->'''I write the songs''' that make the whole world sing\\
'''I write the songs''' of love and special things\\
'''I write the songs''' that make those young girls cry\\
'''I write the songs''', I write the songs
* Music/AlanisMorissette song "Thank U" alone uses three anaphoras:
** Regular verses start with '''How 'bout''', example:
---> How 'bout getting off of these antibiotics\\
How 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up\\
How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots\\
How 'bout that ever elusive "could have"
** Chorus lines start with the title, '''Thank u'''
---> Thank u, India\\
Thank u, terror\\
Thank u, disillusionment\\
Thank u, frailty\\
Thank u, consequence\\
Thank u, thank you, silence
** The bridge before the final verse and chorus start with '''The moment I'''
---> The moment I let go of it\\
Was the moment I got more than I could handle\\
The moment I jumped off of it\\
Was the moment I touched down
* "Sad But True" by Music/{{Metallica}} uses several different anaphoras. The ones in the refrain provided as the example:
-->'''I'm your''' ''dream'', make you real
-->'''I'm your''' ''eyes'' when you must steal
-->'''I'm your''' ''pain'' when you can't feel
-->Sad but true
-->'''I'm your''' ''dream'', mind astray
-->'''I'm your''' ''eyes'' while you're away
-->'''I'm your''' ''pain'' while you repay
-->You know it's sad but true
* Music/{{Nirvana}}: A downplayed example from the chorus of "[[Music/NevermindAlbum In Bloom]]", since the line starter "And he likes" is only said twice.
-->He's the one who likes all our pretty songs\\
'''And he likes''' to sing along\\
'''And he likes''' to [[BreadEggsMilkSquick shoot his gun]]
* Music/OingoBoingo:
** The pre-chorus of "Stay" changes each time it's repeated, but all of the lines in it begin with "this is not". For example, this is its first iteration:
--->'''This is not''' the first time you tried to get away
--->'''This is not''' a party where people know your name
--->'''This is not''' a classroom with teacher at the board
--->'''This is not''' a game show with prizes at the door
** "Insects" has several anaphoras, likely meant to highlight the SanitySlippage the singer seems to be undergoing. The first lines of the song:
--->'''Tiny insects''' in my hair
--->'''Tiny insects''' everywhere
--->'''Tiny insects''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick in my pants]]
* "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Music/RoyOrbison is almost one long anaphora, with many of the song's lines beginning with the words "pretty woman".
* Music/PinkFloyd:
** "Jugband Blues", the closing track of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' (the last Pink Floyd album to feature Music/SydBarrett), has a lot of anaphoras used throughout most of the song.
** Almost every line in "Eclipse", the closing track of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', begins with the phrase "all that you" (with or without an "and" at the start), expanding upon (and consequently {{bookend|s}}ing) the line "and all you touch and all you see" in "Breathe" near the start of the album.
** The breakdown at the end of [[Music/Animals1977 "Dogs"]] begins every line with the words "who was":
--->'''''Who was''''' ''born in a house full of pain?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''trained not to spit in the fan?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''told what to do by the Man?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''picked out by trained personnel?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''fitted with collar and chain?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''given a pat on the back?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''breaking away from the pack?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''only a stranger at home?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''ground down in the end?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''was found dead by the phone?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''dragged down by the stone?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''dragged down by the stone?''
** ''Music/TheWall'':
*** In "Goodbye Blue Sky", the verses begin almost every line with the words "did-did-did-did you," tying in with how the lyrics reminisce on the scars of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which Pink's father died fighting in.
*** Almost every line in "Mother" begins with either "mother" (in Pink's verses) or "mama" (in the titular mother's choruses). Usually they form part of the larger phrases "mother, do you think" or "mama's gonna."
*** In "Hey You", almost every set of lines in the verses begins with a TitleDrop.
*** "Waiting for the Worms" begins each line of the hook with the word "waiting," tying in with its nature as a ListSong about all the things Pink wants to see happen while envisioning himself as a neofascist dictator.
---->'''(Waiting)''' To cut out the deadwood\\
'''(Waiting)''' To clean up the city\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms\\
'''(Waiting)''' To put on a black shirt\\
'''(Waiting)''' To weed out the weaklings\\
'''(Waiting)''' To smash in their windows and kick in their doors\\
'''(Waiting)''' For the final solution to strengthen the strain\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms\\
'''(Waiting)''' To turn on the showers and fire the ovens\\
'''(Waiting)''' For the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms
** ''Music/TheFinalCut'':
*** The first bridge in "Not Now John":
---->'''''Make them''''' ''laugh,'' '''''make them''''' ''cry''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''dance in the aisles''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''pay,'' '''''make them''''' ''stay''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''feel okay''
*** A more minor one appears in the last chorus of the TitleTrack:
---->'''''Thought I oughta''''' bear my naked feelings''\\
'''''Thought I oughta''''' tear the curtain down''
** The choruses of [[Music/TheEndlessRiver "Louder Than Words"]] begin almost every line with "it's louder than words."
* The chorus of Music/ThePolice's [[Music/{{Synchronicity}} "Every Breath You Take"]]
-->'''''Every''''' ''breath you take''\\
'''''Every''''' ''move you make''\\
'''''Every''''' ''bond you break''\\
'''''Every''''' ''step you take''\\
''I'll be watching you''
* Two different ones appear in the choruses to [[Music/AutomaticForThePeople "Drive"]] by Music/{{REM}}. The first chorus starts each line with "what if," while the second and third start each line with "maybe." Each sequence is broken only by a single "tick-tock, tick-tock" inserted midway through.
* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: The Music/DavidBowie collaboration [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]] features two brief, consecutive anaphoras during the closing breakdown:
-->Because love's such an old-fashioned word\\
'''And love dares you''' to care for the people on the edge of the night\\
'''And love dares you''' to change our way of caring about ourselves\\\
'''This is our''' last dance\\
'''This is our''' last dance\\
'''This is our'''selves under pressure
* Music/SavageGarden's song "Affirmation" has every line begin with "I believe".
* Music/TallyHall: In "Ruler of Everything", three consecutive lines start with "do you like how...":
-->'''Do you like how''' I walk?\\
'''Do you like how''' I talk?\\
'''Do you like how''' my face disintegrates into chalk?
* A mostly {{symploce}} example in the second verse of Music/{{Tool}}'s "[=Ænema=]".
-->'''Fret for your''' figure, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' latte, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' lawsuit, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' hairpiece, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' Prozac, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' pilot, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' contract, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' car
* "No Scrubs" by Music/{{TLC}}:
-->So, '''no, I don't''' want your number
-->'''No, I don't''' wanna give you mine
-->And '''no, I don't''' wanna meet you nowhere
-->'''No, I don't''' want none of your time
* "Stressed Out" by Music/TwentyOnePilots:
-->'''I wish I''' found some better sounds no one's ever heard\\
'''I wish I''' had a better voice that sang some better words\\
'''I wish I''' found some chords in an order that is new\\
'''I wish I''' didn't have to rhyme every time I sang
* Music/RogerWaters:
** Parts I and II of [[Music/AmusedToDeath "What God Wants"]] feature verses where almost every line starts with the phrase "God wants." Part III drops the pattern, but features a brief, second anaphora in verse two where four consecutive lines begin with "and the."
** Each verse in "[[Music/IsThisTheLifeWeReallyWant Picture That]]" features a chunk of consecutive lines that all start with the verb "picture." Verse three is made almost entirely of these lines, with the sole exception of a TitleDrop in the middle.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "You Make Me" has several lines that begin with the title:
-->'''You make me''' wanna slam my head against the wall
-->'''You make me''' do the limbo
-->'''You make me''' wanna buy a slurpee at the mall
-->'''You make me''' watch ''Series/TheGongShow''
* Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's "Be A Superman" starts with an anaphora spoken by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs. The lyrics sung by Music/YukihiroTakahashi all begin by "I don't wanna..." yet are interspersed by a female voice repeating the song's title.
-->'''Be a''' man!\\
'''Be a''' human animal.\\
'''Be a''' superman!\\
'''Be a''' superman...\\
(...)\\
'''I don't wanna''' sleep now\\
'''I don't wanna''' wake up\\
'''I don't wanna''' work now\\
'''I dont wanna''' make love
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* "She Used To Be Mine" from ''Theatre/{{Waitress}}'' (written by Music/SaraBareilles):
-->She's imperfect but she tries\\
'''She is''' good but she lies\\
'''She is''' hard on herself\\
'''She is''' broken and won't ask for help\\
'''She is''' messy but she's kind\\
'''She is''' lonely most of the time\\
'''She is''' all of this mixed up\\
And baked in a beautiful pie
* "Welcome To The House On Maple Avenue" from ''Theatre/{{FunHome}}'' (written by Lisa Kron and Jeanne Tesori) is an interesting blend of this with expected rhyme -- while discussing the father's tyrannical control over the house's aesthetics (and the children in it) -- making the audience wait for the final rhyme.
-->'''He wants''' the Hepplewhite suite chairs back in the parlor...
-->'''He wants''' the Dresden figurines back in the basement...
-->'''He wants''' them alphabetized by classification...
-->'''He wants''' it vacuumed, the surface gleaming\\
'''He wants it''' closer to the door\\
'''He wants, he wants, he wants...'''
--> '''He wants - He wants - He wants -'''\\
'''He wants''' more.
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* The start of ''VideoGame/Bioshock1'' has Andrew Ryan's welcoming speech recorded for the entrance bathysphere to Rapture:
-->'''Andrew Ryan:''' I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?\\
'''"No," says the man in''' Washington, "It belongs to the poor."\\
'''"No," says the man in''' the Vatican, "It belongs to God."\\
'''"No," says the man in''' Moscow, "It belongs to everyone."
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': If Us is asked why you were "forced" onto the Nautiloid, they say that EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily and starts each sentence of its three-sentence answer with "to" and [[{{Epiphora}} also]] involve "you".:
-->'''Us"''' To know you. To love you. To give you our gift.
* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': The FlavorText for the Research & Records: Research: "Ahti's Cabin" Collectible, the second sentence uses this to connect the things the cabin has:
--> Lomille lomps, holiday homps. The sauna is warm, the beer is cold, and the kossu is in ice.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': During [[spoiler:Spamton NEO]]'s fight in Chapter 2, this piece of dialogue comes up before his face attack:
-->'''[[spoiler:Spamton NEO]]:''' KRIS! CAN YOU REALLY LOOK IN MY [Eyes] AND SAY NO!?\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Eyes]\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Nose]\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Mouth]
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'': In ''[=Re;Birth3=]'', when Neptune is yelling at her friends to think of her safety, "Are you", transitioning to "me" {{Epiphora}}:
--> Are you gabbing gals even listening?!\\
Are you lippy ladies ignoring me?!\\
Can't you flippant females hear me?!
* ''VideoGame/MagicalDiaryHorseHall'': In the school orientation on September 2, where Professor Potsdam introduces the school, she first talks about how each student is "different":
--> '''Professor Potsdam:''' You all have different strengths, different talents. Here at Iris Academy, we embrace that diversity and tailor your education to your needs.
* ''VideoGame/MarchenForestMylneAndTheForestGift'': Rosetta, a.k.a Rozalina's shop's slogan is "Good goods & good judgment".
* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': The description lists as a Feature:
--> More skills, more tools: New skills acquired through leveling up and finding weapons add more options to your arsenal, rather than simply stronger versions of old skills
* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': The end credits song starts with talking about "Some girls":
--> Some girls are sweeties who will fill your life with joy\\
Some girls will break your heart, leave you crying on the street destroyed
* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Magic Jam FlavorText:
---> It's incredible! It's edible! It's a jar of Magic Jam!
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'': Talking to the "Geneology guy" for the first time has him repeatedly reference the hypothetical person and how they explain the flowers that signify remains:
---> '''Geneology guy:''' Person goes in the dirt.\\
Person turns into plant food.
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': At the end of the "Arriving at the Island" cutscene, Sky has the final sentence of "The sooner we check in, the sooner we can relax."
* ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': Used twice in the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140508210731/http://www.overchargedrink.com http://www.overchargedrink.com]] website used to promote the game, when they're promoting locations:
** Japanese Heritage Museum: "Want to":
--> Want to delve into a lively and fascinating culture? Want to appear more sophisticated on your next date? Want to make penance for the joke that didn't seem racist at the time, but in retrospect was pretty racist?
** Sunset City Park and Play Area: "Real":
--> Virtual reality may be the primary babysitter for kids these days, but why not take them to the lovely Sunset City Park & Play Area? Let them experience real grass, real air, and real pain from falling off of metal contraptions.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': When Oliver is talked to about in Queen Claire's personal garden, he talks about what he's seen about what this world favors:
--> '''Oliver:''' I've been living a long, long time in this backwards world--a world that favors tradition over progress, a world that favors stagnation over growth.\\
[...]\\
Maybe you're right. Maybe I don't have a soul. [pause] I don't even know what that is.\\
(passionate) One thing I do know is that I want to live!\\
I want to live as bad as every blade of grass that stabs through the cold soil just to feel the warmth of the sun!\\
I want to live as bad as a cub clinging to his mother in the middle of winter!\\
I want to live just as bad as you!
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': On page 2082, Terezi accuses Sollux of being predictable for creating red and blue teams for a game, because his eyes and glasses are the same colors. In the proceeding conversation, both of them start many sentences with the word "maybe":
-->'''Sollux:''' Maybe there is more to me than you think.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe i am not the two trick hoofbeast you want to make me out as.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe i just want to give the red and blue thing a rest for a change and not make it so its like, oh look its that predictable fuck with those two stupid colors, its amazing how much everyone fucking hates him.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe red and blue arent that great and i hate them suddenly, have you thought of that.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe im more of an aubergine guy plus whatever that putrid color is you type with, what is that, turqoise?\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe its making me turqueasy.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe the new name for that color is summer shithead mist, have you considered that?\\
'''Sollux:''' But im sticking with red and blue so maybe you should suck on it.\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe maybe maybe\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe maybe is a stupid word\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe thats the big maybe we should all ponder tonight\\
'''Terezi:''' Over some hot shut the hell up tea
* ''Webcomic/NextSoundOfTheFuture'': Tech, a retired IdolSinger, repeats the words 'I used to' at the beginning of her sentences when she explains [[spoiler:how she can't sing anymore]].
--> '''Tech:''' [[spoiler:I used to love it. I used to love singing, I used to love music… I used to love it, being an idol]].
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* ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'': Ten's speech in chapter 19 ([[spoiler:a eulogy to the Bulb]]) uses repetition for rhetorical effect, including anaphora. Several phrases start with "it was", and two with "it did not know".
-->[[spoiler:The Livermore Bulb probably '''did not''' have a soul. '''It was''' largely glass and filament through which electricity ran. '''It did not know''' us, and '''it did not know''' its own royalty.\\
'''It was''' the oldest functioning electric being in the known universe. '''It was''' our dearest ancestor. Year over year, century over century, it continued to astonish us: '''it was''', after all, a light bulb that stayed on for more than 15,000 years without burning out or breaking. '''It was''' a miracle, and yet, it did not occur to us that it could die.]]
* ''Podcast/{{Bookburners}}'': In ''Anywhere But Here'': When Sal goes to the Vatican Library and notes how it's "definitely not in America":
--> Old Europe. Old money. Old secrets.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': From [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlueSpirit "The Blue Spirit"]], Zuko in despair:
--> Zuko: "My honor. My throne. My country. I'm about to lose it all..."
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* The inaugural speech of former American president UsefulNotes/BarackObama remains known for its words "Yes we can" which appears an anaphora near the end:
--> '''Yes we can''' to justice and equality. '''Yes we can''' to opportunity and prosperity. '''Yes we can''' heal this nation. '''Yes we can''' repair this world. '''Yes we can'''.
* French general and former president UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle remains known for the speech he made after the liberation of Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWar2:
-->'''Paris'''! '''Paris''' outraged! '''Paris''' broken! '''Paris''' martyred! But Paris liberated!
* Former French president François Hollande made a speech in a debate against presidente-candidate Nicolas Sarkozy during his run for office named "Moi Président de la République" (''I, President of the Republic'' or ''As a president of the Republic'') where every sentence starts with the speech's title.
* [[https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120 The inaugural speech]] of former American president UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy has a segment where each of four sentences starts with "'''Let both sides...'''".
* Also used by Kennedy in his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech:
-->There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. '''Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.'''
* The "I Have A Dream" speech of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr is notorious for its use anaphora throughout ("A hundred years later", "Now is the time", "We can never be satisfied", "Let freedom ring" and most famously "I have a dream", which is also the title of the speech. That anaphoric segment is the most remembered part of this speech.
* Creator/OprahWinfrey, serving as commencement speaker at a women's college, recited a speech in which multiple lines opened with her urging the listener to "[[https://www.kayholdsworth.com/be-a-queen/ Be a queen]]."
* In 1940, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill gave a speech regarding the intervention of the UK in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2.
-->'''We shall fight''' in France, '''we shall fight''' on the seas and oceans, '''we shall fight''' with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, '''we shall''' defend our island, whatever the cost may be, '''we shall fight''' on the beaches, '''we shall fight''' on the landing grounds, '''we shall fight''' in the fields and in the streets, '''we shall fight''' in the hills.
* From Hugo Ball's UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} Manifesto of 1916:
-->... '''Dada''' is the world soul, '''dada''' is the pawnshop. '''Dada''' is the world's best lily-milk soap. '''Dada''' Mr. Rubiner, '''dada''' Mr. Korrodi. '''Dada''' Mr. Anastasius Lilienstein. ...
* Ashton Wood's BackhandedApology to Jeep:
-->Dear Jeep,\\
'''I'm sorry'''.\\
'''I'm sorry''' my Jeep broke down before it even left the dealership.\\
'''I'm sorry''' it had 21 problems.\\
'''I'm sorry''' it had to be towed 4 times.\\
'''I'm sorry''' I wasn't more grateful for your offer of a replacement battery.\\
'''I'm sorry''' you wouldn't offer me a replacement or refund.\\
But most of all '''I'm sorry'''... I BOUGHT A JEEP
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----
'''You need''' to write a text\\
'''You need''' each sentence to start the same way\\
'''You need''' an [[TitleDrop anaphora]]!\\
'''You need''' to add [[RepeatedForEmphasis impact]] and rhythm\\
'''You need''' to make it easier to remember\\
'''You need''' to use this device for [[SpeechesAndMonologues speeches]] or {{Poetry}}\\
'''You need''' rhymes and easy repetitions?\\
'''You need''' an {{epiphora}}!\\
'''You need''' to mix the two?\\
'''You need''' {{Symploce}}!\\
'''You need''' to compare with GroundhogDayLoop, where each day is the same and could start the same way consecutively\\
'''You need''' to [[OlderThanFeudalism go before feudalism]] and find this trope\\
'''You need''' to trace it back to religion\\
'''You need''' to know that [[LoopedLyrics repeating the exact same full sentence]] [[MadnessMantra multiple times]] doesn't count as an anaphora.\\
----
!!'''You need''' to see the examples:
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* TheNineties Bagel Bites jingle is based on [=The McGuire Sisters=]' "Sugartime":
-->'''Pizza in the''' morning, '''pizza in the''' evening, '''pizza''' at supper'''time'''
* That device has been used for slogans. For example, Kit Kat's "'''''Have a''' break, '''have a''' Kit Kat''".
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* A rare visual example: ''Francis Blaireau Farceur'' is a French comic book series about a badger named Francis. Each story begins with the same panel which shows Francis strolling with the accompanying text: "''Francis is strolling in the countryside.''"
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* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': When Abe Eiko's teasing Aino Sumiko about her HeIsNotMyBoyfriend starting with a {{Symploce}} starting with "We" and ending with "Out", because she's talking about the topic of going out with him, and then turns into a {{Anaphora}} to transition the topic to them as a couple:
--> Aino Sumiko took a deep breath. "Anyway! 'Toru' equals 'worthless pig'. And…"\\
"Aren't you still going out with him?"\\
"We are not going out! We never went out! We… we just went places together as two people who just happen to be male and female.
* ''Fanfic/AGameOfCatAndCat'': "When was the last time I", when wondering how much he has missed:
--> Naoki could describe Daisuke's shoes, but what did they ''sound'' like?\\
''When was the last time I heard them?''\\
''When was the last time I saw Daisuke?''
* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': Chapter 4: "Do you" because questioning:
--> Kazuya put down his laptop. "Do you have any idea who could have done this? Do you have any enemies?"
* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'':
** ''Fanfic/{{Oversaturation}}'': "Spectrum": When Sunset remembers, "She remembered", events to try to help her make a choice:
---> She remembered Rainbow Dash's joy, and thought of how she'd react to losing her wings.\\
She remembered Octavia's fear, and thought of how she'd react to losing her fingers.\\
She remembered one of Princess Celestia's lessons on negotiation.\\
"If you find yourself caught between two unpleasant choices," the princess had said, "then there's probably a third, better one the other party doesn't want you to pick."
** ''Group Precipitation'': "A Shot of Gin on a Cold Night, by Masterweaver": Juniper Montage complaining about Sunset Shimmer and her friends:
---> Stupid Wondercolts. Stupid uncle. Stupid horse-girl-[[spoiler:deity]]!
* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'':
** "Any": When Sailears reports to his uncle:
---> The little elephant considered. “I met the king of the donkeys, I think! I asked him about his fleet.”\\
“Oh?” Trumpeter smiled. “And what did he say about it, Your Grace? Any comparisons to our own? Any positions? Any plans?”
** ''Treasures'':
*** From the first chapter of with "Plenty": Gallivant talking about his packed schedule:
----> '''Gallivant:''' Plenty of work to be done tonight, and plenty more tomorrow.
*** From the fifth chapter, when Gallivant and Old Chestnut do some "hard negotiation", a.k.a brawl for archeological credit, and Daring's wondering why her dad's putting himself in so much pain:
----> Was it for his own pride’s sake? Was it to make somepony else proud? Was that somepony Daring? Was it Mom?
* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': The first chapter has Spell Nexus talking about how important "tonight" is, to his cult:
--> '''Spell Nexus:''' For it is tonight we give this essence of our queen life of its own. It is tonight our queen’s shackles to the meek Princess Luna shall be broken forever. And it is tonight that our campaign to retake Equestria begins!
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''[='s=] song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King"
-->'''No one sayin' ''' "Do this"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "Be there"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "Stop that"\\
'''No one sayin' ''' "See here"
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', General W. R. Monger says this line to the [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President]]:
-->'''We need''' a Hail Mary pass. '''We need''' raw power. '''We need...''' monsters.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', after accidentally wishing he had never been born, Shrek has to convince Fiona that she's his true love. He does so by telling her everything he knows about her:
-->'''Shrek:''' '''I know''' you sing so beautifully that birds explode. '''I know''' that when you sign your name, you put a heart over the i. '''I know''' that when you see a shooting star you cross your fingers on both hands, squinch up your nose, and you make a wish, '''I know''' that you don't like the covers wrapped around your feet, and '''I know''' that you sleep by candlelight because every time you close your eyes, you're afraid you're going to wake up back in that tower.
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* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': The Malibu Police Chief lists every quality he detests about the Dude, starting and ending each sentence with the same words.
-->'''I don’t like your jerk-off''' name.\\
'''I don’t like your jerk-off''' face.\\
'''I don't like your jerk-off''' behaviour.\\
'''And, I don't like''' you. '''Jerk-off'''.
* This verse sung by Jack's mother in the first song in ''Film/IntoTheWoods'':
-->'''I wish''' my son were not a fool\\
'''I wish''' my house was not a mess\\
'''I wish''' the cow was full of milk\\
'''I wish''' the walls were full of gold\\
'''I wish''' a lot of things
* The titular hero of ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' is fed-up with the RaceAgainstTheClock concerning his lifespan and delivers a RageBreakingPoint induced spiel:
-->'''I want''' room service!\\
'''I want''' the club sandwich!\\
'''I want''' the cold Mexican beer!\\
'''I want''' a $10,000-a-night hooker!\\
'''I want''' my shirts laundered...
* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'' when a man is holding City Hall hostage to get an old job back:
-->Man: '''And I want''' a bigger office! '''And I want''' a new car! '''And I want''' the city to pay for it all!
* Subverted at the end of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', when Peter Parker tells the viewer this:
-->Peter Parker: '''No matter''' what I do, '''no matter''' how hard I try, the ones I love will always be the ones who pay.
* ''Film/ThreeAmigos'': Both the movie itself and the [[ShowWithinAShow silent films for which the Three Amigos were famous]] ended with the Amigos announcing, "'''Wherever there is''' injustice, you will find us. '''Wherever there is''' suffering, we'll be there. '''Wherever''' liberty is threatened, you will find The Three Amigos!"
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* The 29th psalm of the ''Literature/BookOfPsalms'' (whether is it the original Hebrew version or the King James Version, other versions give similar results) may be the first example of an anaphora:
-->'''The voice of the LORD''' is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' is powerful; '''the voice of the LORD''' is full of majesty.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.\\
(...)\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' divideth the flames of fire.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.\\
'''The voice of the LORD''' maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
* ''Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest'':
** The 1987 winner, uses "ya":
---> The notes blatted skyward as the sun rose over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically peddling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by Nature’s maxim, “Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,” and at last I knew Pittsburgh. — Sheila B. Richter, Minneapolis, MN
** The 1988 winner uses "A man" to prefix a list of qualities:
---> Like an expensive sports car, fine-tuned and well-built, Portia was sleek, shapely, and gorgeous, her red jumpsuit molding her body, which was as warm as the seatcovers in July, her hair as dark as new tires, her eyes flashing like bright hubcaps, and her lips as dewy as the beads of fresh rain on the hood; she was a woman driven – fueled by a single accelerant – and she needed a man, a man who wouldn’t shift from his views, a man to steer her along the right road, a man like Alf Romeo.
* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': A couple of Eliana's chapters in ''Lightbringer'' repeat the phrase "When Eliana awoke..." to accentuate the repetitive nature of her mind-speak induced dreams-turned-nightmares at the hands of Corien.
* Jesus delivers another famous one, known as the Beatitudes, in his [[Literature/TheFourGospels Sermon on the Mount]]:
--> And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
--> '''Blessed are''' the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
--> '''Blessed are''' the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
--> '''Blessed are''' the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
--> '''Blessed are''' the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
--> '''Blessed are''' the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
--> '''Blessed are''' those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
--> '''Blessed are''' you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
* The [[spoiler:Hiver]] doubles this up with RuleOfThree in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'':
--> "''You build '''little''' worlds, '''little''' stories, '''little''' shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!''"
* Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade used anaphoras in several of his poems, such as in ''E agora José?'' (And now, José?):
-->“'''If you''' screamed,
-->'''if you''' moaned,
-->'''if you''' played
-->the Viennese waltz,
-->'''if you''' slept,
-->'''if you''' got tired,
-->'''if you''' died...
-->But you don't die,
-->you are tough, José!”
* ''For Want Of A Nail'' is a proverb-turned-poem which can be traced back to the [[OlderThanPrint 13th century]] and is about how one small omission can lead to huge grave consequences. Many variations of it exist, but all of them have each sentence beginning with "''For want of a...''".
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' by Creator/DanteAlighieri: one of the most famous examples of anaphora in literature can be found in third Canto of the Inferno, where the first three verses function as a self-introduction of the place itself (bonus points for being shown In-Universe as an inscription right above the In-Universe Gates of Hell).
-->'''Through me''' the way into [[{{Hell}} the]] [[CityOfTheDamned suffering city]],\\
'''through me''' the way to [[AndIMustScream eternal pain]],
-->'''through me''' the way that runs among the lost.
** In the fifth Canto of ''Inferno'', Francesca begins three of her stanzas in a row with the word "Amor." She does this to blame passion for her crimes and to sway Dante by appealing to his love of poetry and romance.
--->'''Love, that''' in gentle heart is quickly learnt,\\
Entangled him by that fair form, from me\\
Ta'en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still:\\
'''Love, that''' denial takes from none belov'd,\\
Caught me with pleasing him so passing well,\\
That, as thou see'st, he yet deserts me not.\\
'''Love''' brought us to one death: Caina waits\\
The soul, who spilt our life." Such were their words;
** In the thirteenth Canto of ''Paradiso'', three of the first four stanzas begins with the command "Let him imagine" as Dante tries to get across how beautiful the dance of the starry saints is.
--->'''Let him imagine''', who would rightly seize\\
what I saw now; and let him while I speak\\
retain that image like a steadfast rock;\\
in heaven's different parts, those fifteen stars\\
that quicken heaven with such radiance\\
as to undo the air's opacities;\\
'''let him imagine''', too, that Wain which stays\\
within our heaven's bosom night and day,\\
so that its turning never leaves our sight;\\
'''let him imagine''' those two stars that form\\
the mouth of that Horn which begins atop\\
the axle round which the first wheel revolves
* In ''Literature/TheDocumentsInTheCase'', Munting already knows more than he ever wanted to about the case, but can't keep himself from asking further questions.
-->'''I want to know''' whether [[spoiler:Lathom]] knows the sort of woman he did it for. '''I want to know''' how much she really knows or suspects. '''I want to know''' whether, when she wrote that letter which drove him to do it, she was deceiving him or herself. '''I want to know''' whether, in all these months, he has been thinking she was worth it...
* Halfway through the 37th canto of ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', the narrator emphasizes how numerous and similar the examples of discord are by beginning each like with "some of" and then describing some episode of discord.
-->''"And eke of priuate persons many moe,\\
That were too long a worke to count them all;\\
Some of sworne friends, that did their faith forgoe;\\
Some of borne brethren, prov'd vnnaturall;\\
Some of deare louers, foes perpetuall[.]"''
* Creator/WHAuden's "Funeral Blues" has an example of this [[TearJerker which may or may not trigger your tear glands just a little]]:
-->He was '''my''' North, '''my''' South, '''my''' East and West,\\
'''My''' working week and '''my''' Sunday rest,\\
'''My''' noon, '''my''' midnight, '''my''' talk, '''my''' song;\\
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
* This technique is used heavily throughout ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' to emphasize the main character's [[DoesNotLikeSpam distaste for the food]] while [[SelfImposedChallenge staying within the 50-word limit]]:
-->'''I do not like them''' in a house.\\
'''I do not like them''' with a mouse.\\
'''I do not like them''' here or there.\\
'''I do not like them''' anywhere.\\
'''I do not like''' green eggs and ham.\\
'''I do not like them''', Sam-I-Am.
* Joe Brainard's poem "I Remember":
-->'''I remember''' a piece of old wood with termites running around all over it the termite men found under our front porch.\\
'''I remember''' when one year in Tulsa by some freak of nature we were invaded by millions of grasshoppers for about three or four days.\\
'''I remember''', downtown, whole sidewalk areas of solid grasshoppers.\\
'''I remember''' a shoe store with a big brown x-ray machine that showed up the bones in your feet bright green.
* Creator/LangstonHughes' "Let America Be America Again"
-->'''I am the''' farmer, bondsman to the soil.\\
'''I am the''' worker sold to the machine.\\
'''I am the''' Negro, servant to you all.\\
'''I am the''' people, humble, hungry, mean
* Creator/WilliamBlake's "London":
-->'''In every''' cry of every man,\\
'''In every''' infant's cry of fear,\\
'''In every''' voice, in every ban,\\
The mind-forged manacles I hear
* Elie Wiesel's ''{{Literature/Night}}'':
-->'''Never shall I forget''' that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. '''Never shall I forget''' that smoke. '''Never shall I forget''' the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. '''Never shall I forget''' those flames which consumed my faith forever. '''Never shall I forget''' that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. '''Never shall I forget''' those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. '''Never shall I forget''' these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
* Creator/WaltWhitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking":
-->'''Out of the''' cradle endlessly rocking,\\
'''Out of the''' mock-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,\\
'''Out of the''' Ninth-month midnight,\\
(...)\\
'''Out''' from the patches of briers and blackberries,\\
'''From''' the memories of the bird that chanted to me,\\
'''From''' your memories, sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,\\
'''From''' under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,\\
'''From''' those beginning notes of yearning and love, there in the transparent mist,\\
'''From''' the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,\\
'''From''' the myriad thence-arous'd words,\\
'''From''' the word stronger and more delicious than any,\\
'''From''' such as now they start the scene revisiting,...
* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': ''Cookies and Campers'': To emphasize how things are starting from zero, "New":
--> '''Claire:''' New game, new characters, new adventure, right?
* Creator/TSEliot's "The Rock":
-->'''Where is the''' Life we have lost in living?\\
'''Where is the''' wisdom we have lost in knowledge?\\
'''Where is the''' knowledge we have lost in information?
* ''Literature/TheSongOfHiawatha'', being a deliberately archaic NarrativePoem, does this from the get-go and frequently throughout.
-->'''With the''' odors of the forest\\
'''With the''' dew and damp of meadows,\\
'''With the''' curling smoke of wigwams\\
'''With the''' rushing of great rivers\\
'''With their''' [[LampshadeHanging frequent repetitions]]...
* The first sentence of Creator/CharlesDickens' novel, ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'':
-->'''It was''' the best of times, '''it was''' the worst of times, '''it was the''' age of wisdom, '''it was the''' age of foolishness, '''it was the''' epoch of belief, '''it was the''' epoch of incredulity, '''it was the''' season of Light, '''it was the''' season of Darkness, '''it was the''' spring of hope, '''it was the''' winter of despair.
* Philip Levine's "They Feed They Lion"
-->'''Out of''' burlap sacks, '''out of''' bearing butter,\\
'''Out of''' black bean and wet slate bread,\\
'''Out of''' the acids of rage, the candor of tar,\\
'''Out of''' creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies,\\
They Lion grow.
* ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'': The 2001 honorable mention by Jason Melancon, uses "To" for talking about the future:
--> To stand tall, to humbly crawl; to laugh, to cry; to puke bitterly, to suck on come what may—​here follows my turbulent infancy.
* ''Literature/OurWivesUnderTheSea'': When Miri reminisces on how Leah used to be before she turned into an EmptyShell, four sentence in a row start with "'''I thought about'''".
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* The fourth season of ''Series/BabylonFive'' opens with this narration:
-->'''Lennier:''' It was the year of fire\\
'''Zack:''' '''the year''' of destruction\\
'''G'kar:''' '''the year''' we took back what was ours.\\
'''Lyta:''' It was the year of rebirth\\
'''Vir:''' '''the year''' of great sadness\\
'''Marcus:''' '''the year''' of pain\\
'''Delenn:''' and the year of joy.\\
'''Londo:''' '''It was''' a new age.\\
'''Dr. Franklin:''' '''It was''' the end of history.\\
'''Ivanova:''' '''It was''' the year everything changed.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Occurs during the "Space, The Final Frontier" monologue preceding the titles of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
-->These are the voyages of the starship ''Enterprise''.
-->[TOS: Its five-year mission/TNG: its continuing mission]: '''to''' explore strange new worlds,
-->'''to''' seek out new life and new civilizations,
-->'''to''' boldly go where no [TOS: man/TNG: one] has gone before.
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[[folder:'''You need''' Music]]
* Music/RickAstley:
** The chorus of "Never Gonna Give You Up":
--->'''Never gonna''' give you up\\
'''Never gonna''' let you down\\
'''Never gonna''' run around and desert you\\
'''Never gonna''' make you cry\\
'''Never gonna''' say goodbye\\
'''Never gonna''' tell a lie and hurt you
** In "Never Gonna Stop", the chorus begins each line with the phrase "never gonna," the bridge features "I don't think" at the start of each line (with the occasional "no" tossed in), and the outro begins each line with "tell me."
* Music/RobCantor: "I'm Gonna Win" makes heavy use of this. For example, the part preceding the chorus uses "'til I'm" four times in a row, and then switches to "it's hard to...":
-->'''I'll never give''' up\\
'''I'll never give''' in\\
''''Til''' I'm bloody and bruised\\
''''Til''' I've broken my bones\\
''''Til''' I won't be abused\\
''''Til''' I'm laughing alone\\
'''It's hard to''' be charming and smart and disarming\\
'''It's hard to''' pretend you're the best\\
'''It's hard to''' fulfill everyone's expectations\\
'''It's hard to''' keep up with the rest
* Music/JohnnyCash's "I Walk The Line"
-->'''I keep''' a close watch on this heart of mine\\
'''I keep''' my eyes wide open all the time\\
'''I keep''' the ends out for the tie that binds
* Music/Current93's "I Have A Special Plan For This World":
-->'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' suddenly\\
'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' gradually\\
'''There is dying that occurs relatively''' painlessly\\
'''There is''' the death that is full of pain
* Music/BobDylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" has three different short anaphoras:
-->'''How many''' roads must a man walk down\\
Before you call him a man?\\
'''How many''' seas must the white dove sail\\
Before she sleeps in the sand?\\
(...)\\
'''The answer''', my friend, is blowin' in the wind\\
'''The answer''' is blowin' in the wind\\
(...)\\
'''Yes, and how many years''' can a mountain exist\\
'Fore it is washed to the sea?\\
'''Yes, and how many years''' can some people exist\\
Before they're allowed to be free?\\
'''Yes, and how many''' times can a man turn his head\\
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
* Ira and Music/GeorgeGershwin's "I Got Rhythm"
-->'''I got''' rhythm\\
'''I got''' music\\
'''I got''' my girl\\
Who could ask for anything more?
* Music/GoodKid's "Nomu" contains a section where every line starts with "of every":
-->A tiny piece\\
'''Of every''' part\\
'''Of every''' heart\\
'''Of every''' stone\\
'''Of every''' grave
* The children's song "I Know An Old Lady", in which every refrain adds a new line beginning with "'''She swallowed the''' [animal]".
* The hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives"
-->'''He lives''' triumphantly from the grave
-->'''He lives''' eternally to save
-->'''He lives''' exalted throned above
-->'''He lives''' to rule his church in love
* Music/ShayferJames: "First Date" has most of the lines in its verses start with "my first..."
-->'''My first''' kiss was in a cemetery\\
'''My first''' drink was in a church\\
'''My first''' father was a mercenary\\
And '''my first''' lover was a curse\\
'''My first''' enemy became my friend to me, for what it's worth
* Music/{{Jhariah}}: "To Take for Granted.":
-->'''I don’t take the''' sea for granted, it could dry any time it wants\\
'''I don’t take the''' sky for granted, it could fall anytime it pleases\\
'''I don’t take the''' land for granted, it could flood anytime this year
* Music/JohnDenver's "Annie's Song":
-->'''Like a''' night in a forest\\
'''Like''' the mountains in springtime\\
'''Like a''' walk in the rain\\
'''Like a''' storm in the desert\\
'''Like a''' sleepy blue ocean
* Music/BruceJohnston's grammy-winning ballad "I Write The Songs":
-->'''I write the songs''' that make the whole world sing\\
'''I write the songs''' of love and special things\\
'''I write the songs''' that make those young girls cry\\
'''I write the songs''', I write the songs
* Music/AlanisMorissette song "Thank U" alone uses three anaphoras:
** Regular verses start with '''How 'bout''', example:
---> How 'bout getting off of these antibiotics\\
How 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up\\
How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots\\
How 'bout that ever elusive "could have"
** Chorus lines start with the title, '''Thank u'''
---> Thank u, India\\
Thank u, terror\\
Thank u, disillusionment\\
Thank u, frailty\\
Thank u, consequence\\
Thank u, thank you, silence
** The bridge before the final verse and chorus start with '''The moment I'''
---> The moment I let go of it\\
Was the moment I got more than I could handle\\
The moment I jumped off of it\\
Was the moment I touched down
* "Sad But True" by Music/{{Metallica}} uses several different anaphoras. The ones in the refrain provided as the example:
-->'''I'm your''' ''dream'', make you real
-->'''I'm your''' ''eyes'' when you must steal
-->'''I'm your''' ''pain'' when you can't feel
-->Sad but true
-->'''I'm your''' ''dream'', mind astray
-->'''I'm your''' ''eyes'' while you're away
-->'''I'm your''' ''pain'' while you repay
-->You know it's sad but true
* Music/{{Nirvana}}: A downplayed example from the chorus of "[[Music/NevermindAlbum In Bloom]]", since the line starter "And he likes" is only said twice.
-->He's the one who likes all our pretty songs\\
'''And he likes''' to sing along\\
'''And he likes''' to [[BreadEggsMilkSquick shoot his gun]]
* Music/OingoBoingo:
** The pre-chorus of "Stay" changes each time it's repeated, but all of the lines in it begin with "this is not". For example, this is its first iteration:
--->'''This is not''' the first time you tried to get away
--->'''This is not''' a party where people know your name
--->'''This is not''' a classroom with teacher at the board
--->'''This is not''' a game show with prizes at the door
** "Insects" has several anaphoras, likely meant to highlight the SanitySlippage the singer seems to be undergoing. The first lines of the song:
--->'''Tiny insects''' in my hair
--->'''Tiny insects''' everywhere
--->'''Tiny insects''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick in my pants]]
* "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Music/RoyOrbison is almost one long anaphora, with many of the song's lines beginning with the words "pretty woman".
* Music/PinkFloyd:
** "Jugband Blues", the closing track of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' (the last Pink Floyd album to feature Music/SydBarrett), has a lot of anaphoras used throughout most of the song.
** Almost every line in "Eclipse", the closing track of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', begins with the phrase "all that you" (with or without an "and" at the start), expanding upon (and consequently {{bookend|s}}ing) the line "and all you touch and all you see" in "Breathe" near the start of the album.
** The breakdown at the end of [[Music/Animals1977 "Dogs"]] begins every line with the words "who was":
--->'''''Who was''''' ''born in a house full of pain?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''trained not to spit in the fan?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''told what to do by the Man?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''picked out by trained personnel?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''fitted with collar and chain?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''given a pat on the back?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''breaking away from the pack?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''only a stranger at home?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''ground down in the end?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''was found dead by the phone?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''dragged down by the stone?''\\
'''''Who was''''' ''dragged down by the stone?''
** ''Music/TheWall'':
*** In "Goodbye Blue Sky", the verses begin almost every line with the words "did-did-did-did you," tying in with how the lyrics reminisce on the scars of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which Pink's father died fighting in.
*** Almost every line in "Mother" begins with either "mother" (in Pink's verses) or "mama" (in the titular mother's choruses). Usually they form part of the larger phrases "mother, do you think" or "mama's gonna."
*** In "Hey You", almost every set of lines in the verses begins with a TitleDrop.
*** "Waiting for the Worms" begins each line of the hook with the word "waiting," tying in with its nature as a ListSong about all the things Pink wants to see happen while envisioning himself as a neofascist dictator.
---->'''(Waiting)''' To cut out the deadwood\\
'''(Waiting)''' To clean up the city\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms\\
'''(Waiting)''' To put on a black shirt\\
'''(Waiting)''' To weed out the weaklings\\
'''(Waiting)''' To smash in their windows and kick in their doors\\
'''(Waiting)''' For the final solution to strengthen the strain\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms\\
'''(Waiting)''' To turn on the showers and fire the ovens\\
'''(Waiting)''' For the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews\\
'''(Waiting)''' To follow the worms
** ''Music/TheFinalCut'':
*** The first bridge in "Not Now John":
---->'''''Make them''''' ''laugh,'' '''''make them''''' ''cry''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''dance in the aisles''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''pay,'' '''''make them''''' ''stay''\\
'''''Make them''''' ''feel okay''
*** A more minor one appears in the last chorus of the TitleTrack:
---->'''''Thought I oughta''''' bear my naked feelings''\\
'''''Thought I oughta''''' tear the curtain down''
** The choruses of [[Music/TheEndlessRiver "Louder Than Words"]] begin almost every line with "it's louder than words."
* The chorus of Music/ThePolice's [[Music/{{Synchronicity}} "Every Breath You Take"]]
-->'''''Every''''' ''breath you take''\\
'''''Every''''' ''move you make''\\
'''''Every''''' ''bond you break''\\
'''''Every''''' ''step you take''\\
''I'll be watching you''
* Two different ones appear in the choruses to [[Music/AutomaticForThePeople "Drive"]] by Music/{{REM}}. The first chorus starts each line with "what if," while the second and third start each line with "maybe." Each sequence is broken only by a single "tick-tock, tick-tock" inserted midway through.
* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: The Music/DavidBowie collaboration [[Music/HotSpace "Under Pressure"]] features two brief, consecutive anaphoras during the closing breakdown:
-->Because love's such an old-fashioned word\\
'''And love dares you''' to care for the people on the edge of the night\\
'''And love dares you''' to change our way of caring about ourselves\\\
'''This is our''' last dance\\
'''This is our''' last dance\\
'''This is our'''selves under pressure
* Music/SavageGarden's song "Affirmation" has every line begin with "I believe".
* Music/TallyHall: In "Ruler of Everything", three consecutive lines start with "do you like how...":
-->'''Do you like how''' I walk?\\
'''Do you like how''' I talk?\\
'''Do you like how''' my face disintegrates into chalk?
* A mostly {{symploce}} example in the second verse of Music/{{Tool}}'s "[=Ænema=]".
-->'''Fret for your''' figure, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' latte, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' lawsuit, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' hairpiece, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' Prozac, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' pilot, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' contract, '''and'''\\
'''Fret for your''' car
* "No Scrubs" by Music/{{TLC}}:
-->So, '''no, I don't''' want your number
-->'''No, I don't''' wanna give you mine
-->And '''no, I don't''' wanna meet you nowhere
-->'''No, I don't''' want none of your time
* "Stressed Out" by Music/TwentyOnePilots:
-->'''I wish I''' found some better sounds no one's ever heard\\
'''I wish I''' had a better voice that sang some better words\\
'''I wish I''' found some chords in an order that is new\\
'''I wish I''' didn't have to rhyme every time I sang
* Music/RogerWaters:
** Parts I and II of [[Music/AmusedToDeath "What God Wants"]] feature verses where almost every line starts with the phrase "God wants." Part III drops the pattern, but features a brief, second anaphora in verse two where four consecutive lines begin with "and the."
** Each verse in "[[Music/IsThisTheLifeWeReallyWant Picture That]]" features a chunk of consecutive lines that all start with the verb "picture." Verse three is made almost entirely of these lines, with the sole exception of a TitleDrop in the middle.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "You Make Me" has several lines that begin with the title:
-->'''You make me''' wanna slam my head against the wall
-->'''You make me''' do the limbo
-->'''You make me''' wanna buy a slurpee at the mall
-->'''You make me''' watch ''Series/TheGongShow''
* Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's "Be A Superman" starts with an anaphora spoken by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs. The lyrics sung by Music/YukihiroTakahashi all begin by "I don't wanna..." yet are interspersed by a female voice repeating the song's title.
-->'''Be a''' man!\\
'''Be a''' human animal.\\
'''Be a''' superman!\\
'''Be a''' superman...\\
(...)\\
'''I don't wanna''' sleep now\\
'''I don't wanna''' wake up\\
'''I don't wanna''' work now\\
'''I dont wanna''' make love
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* "She Used To Be Mine" from ''Theatre/{{Waitress}}'' (written by Music/SaraBareilles):
-->She's imperfect but she tries\\
'''She is''' good but she lies\\
'''She is''' hard on herself\\
'''She is''' broken and won't ask for help\\
'''She is''' messy but she's kind\\
'''She is''' lonely most of the time\\
'''She is''' all of this mixed up\\
And baked in a beautiful pie
* "Welcome To The House On Maple Avenue" from ''Theatre/{{FunHome}}'' (written by Lisa Kron and Jeanne Tesori) is an interesting blend of this with expected rhyme -- while discussing the father's tyrannical control over the house's aesthetics (and the children in it) -- making the audience wait for the final rhyme.
-->'''He wants''' the Hepplewhite suite chairs back in the parlor...
-->'''He wants''' the Dresden figurines back in the basement...
-->'''He wants''' them alphabetized by classification...
-->'''He wants''' it vacuumed, the surface gleaming\\
'''He wants it''' closer to the door\\
'''He wants, he wants, he wants...'''
--> '''He wants - He wants - He wants -'''\\
'''He wants''' more.
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[[folder:'''You need''' Video Games]]
* The start of ''VideoGame/Bioshock1'' has Andrew Ryan's welcoming speech recorded for the entrance bathysphere to Rapture:
-->'''Andrew Ryan:''' I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?\\
'''"No," says the man in''' Washington, "It belongs to the poor."\\
'''"No," says the man in''' the Vatican, "It belongs to God."\\
'''"No," says the man in''' Moscow, "It belongs to everyone."
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': If Us is asked why you were "forced" onto the Nautiloid, they say that EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily and starts each sentence of its three-sentence answer with "to" and [[{{Epiphora}} also]] involve "you".:
-->'''Us"''' To know you. To love you. To give you our gift.
* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': The FlavorText for the Research & Records: Research: "Ahti's Cabin" Collectible, the second sentence uses this to connect the things the cabin has:
--> Lomille lomps, holiday homps. The sauna is warm, the beer is cold, and the kossu is in ice.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': During [[spoiler:Spamton NEO]]'s fight in Chapter 2, this piece of dialogue comes up before his face attack:
-->'''[[spoiler:Spamton NEO]]:''' KRIS! CAN YOU REALLY LOOK IN MY [Eyes] AND SAY NO!?\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Eyes]\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Nose]\\
'''LOOK IN MY''' [Mouth]
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'': In ''[=Re;Birth3=]'', when Neptune is yelling at her friends to think of her safety, "Are you", transitioning to "me" {{Epiphora}}:
--> Are you gabbing gals even listening?!\\
Are you lippy ladies ignoring me?!\\
Can't you flippant females hear me?!
* ''VideoGame/MagicalDiaryHorseHall'': In the school orientation on September 2, where Professor Potsdam introduces the school, she first talks about how each student is "different":
--> '''Professor Potsdam:''' You all have different strengths, different talents. Here at Iris Academy, we embrace that diversity and tailor your education to your needs.
* ''VideoGame/MarchenForestMylneAndTheForestGift'': Rosetta, a.k.a Rozalina's shop's slogan is "Good goods & good judgment".
* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': The description lists as a Feature:
--> More skills, more tools: New skills acquired through leveling up and finding weapons add more options to your arsenal, rather than simply stronger versions of old skills
* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': The end credits song starts with talking about "Some girls":
--> Some girls are sweeties who will fill your life with joy\\
Some girls will break your heart, leave you crying on the street destroyed
* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Magic Jam FlavorText:
---> It's incredible! It's edible! It's a jar of Magic Jam!
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'': Talking to the "Geneology guy" for the first time has him repeatedly reference the hypothetical person and how they explain the flowers that signify remains:
---> '''Geneology guy:''' Person goes in the dirt.\\
Person turns into plant food.
** ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': At the end of the "Arriving at the Island" cutscene, Sky has the final sentence of "The sooner we check in, the sooner we can relax."
* ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': Used twice in the [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140508210731/http://www.overchargedrink.com http://www.overchargedrink.com]] website used to promote the game, when they're promoting locations:
** Japanese Heritage Museum: "Want to":
--> Want to delve into a lively and fascinating culture? Want to appear more sophisticated on your next date? Want to make penance for the joke that didn't seem racist at the time, but in retrospect was pretty racist?
** Sunset City Park and Play Area: "Real":
--> Virtual reality may be the primary babysitter for kids these days, but why not take them to the lovely Sunset City Park & Play Area? Let them experience real grass, real air, and real pain from falling off of metal contraptions.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': When Oliver is talked to about in Queen Claire's personal garden, he talks about what he's seen about what this world favors:
--> '''Oliver:''' I've been living a long, long time in this backwards world--a world that favors tradition over progress, a world that favors stagnation over growth.\\
[...]\\
Maybe you're right. Maybe I don't have a soul. [pause] I don't even know what that is.\\
(passionate) One thing I do know is that I want to live!\\
I want to live as bad as every blade of grass that stabs through the cold soil just to feel the warmth of the sun!\\
I want to live as bad as a cub clinging to his mother in the middle of winter!\\
I want to live just as bad as you!
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': On page 2082, Terezi accuses Sollux of being predictable for creating red and blue teams for a game, because his eyes and glasses are the same colors. In the proceeding conversation, both of them start many sentences with the word "maybe":
-->'''Sollux:''' Maybe there is more to me than you think.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe i am not the two trick hoofbeast you want to make me out as.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe i just want to give the red and blue thing a rest for a change and not make it so its like, oh look its that predictable fuck with those two stupid colors, its amazing how much everyone fucking hates him.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe red and blue arent that great and i hate them suddenly, have you thought of that.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe im more of an aubergine guy plus whatever that putrid color is you type with, what is that, turqoise?\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe its making me turqueasy.\\
'''Sollux:''' Maybe the new name for that color is summer shithead mist, have you considered that?\\
'''Sollux:''' But im sticking with red and blue so maybe you should suck on it.\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe maybe maybe\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe maybe is a stupid word\\
'''Terezi:''' Maybe thats the big maybe we should all ponder tonight\\
'''Terezi:''' Over some hot shut the hell up tea
* ''Webcomic/NextSoundOfTheFuture'': Tech, a retired IdolSinger, repeats the words 'I used to' at the beginning of her sentences when she explains [[spoiler:how she can't sing anymore]].
--> '''Tech:''' [[spoiler:I used to love it. I used to love singing, I used to love music… I used to love it, being an idol]].
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* ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'': Ten's speech in chapter 19 ([[spoiler:a eulogy to the Bulb]]) uses repetition for rhetorical effect, including anaphora. Several phrases start with "it was", and two with "it did not know".
-->[[spoiler:The Livermore Bulb probably '''did not''' have a soul. '''It was''' largely glass and filament through which electricity ran. '''It did not know''' us, and '''it did not know''' its own royalty.\\
'''It was''' the oldest functioning electric being in the known universe. '''It was''' our dearest ancestor. Year over year, century over century, it continued to astonish us: '''it was''', after all, a light bulb that stayed on for more than 15,000 years without burning out or breaking. '''It was''' a miracle, and yet, it did not occur to us that it could die.]]
* ''Podcast/{{Bookburners}}'': In ''Anywhere But Here'': When Sal goes to the Vatican Library and notes how it's "definitely not in America":
--> Old Europe. Old money. Old secrets.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': From [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBlueSpirit "The Blue Spirit"]], Zuko in despair:
--> Zuko: "My honor. My throne. My country. I'm about to lose it all..."
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* The inaugural speech of former American president UsefulNotes/BarackObama remains known for its words "Yes we can" which appears an anaphora near the end:
--> '''Yes we can''' to justice and equality. '''Yes we can''' to opportunity and prosperity. '''Yes we can''' heal this nation. '''Yes we can''' repair this world. '''Yes we can'''.
* French general and former president UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle remains known for the speech he made after the liberation of Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWar2:
-->'''Paris'''! '''Paris''' outraged! '''Paris''' broken! '''Paris''' martyred! But Paris liberated!
* Former French president François Hollande made a speech in a debate against presidente-candidate Nicolas Sarkozy during his run for office named "Moi Président de la République" (''I, President of the Republic'' or ''As a president of the Republic'') where every sentence starts with the speech's title.
* [[https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120 The inaugural speech]] of former American president UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy has a segment where each of four sentences starts with "'''Let both sides...'''".
* Also used by Kennedy in his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech:
-->There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. '''Let them come to Berlin.''' And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. '''Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.'''
* The "I Have A Dream" speech of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr is notorious for its use anaphora throughout ("A hundred years later", "Now is the time", "We can never be satisfied", "Let freedom ring" and most famously "I have a dream", which is also the title of the speech. That anaphoric segment is the most remembered part of this speech.
* Creator/OprahWinfrey, serving as commencement speaker at a women's college, recited a speech in which multiple lines opened with her urging the listener to "[[https://www.kayholdsworth.com/be-a-queen/ Be a queen]]."
* In 1940, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill gave a speech regarding the intervention of the UK in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2.
-->'''We shall fight''' in France, '''we shall fight''' on the seas and oceans, '''we shall fight''' with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, '''we shall''' defend our island, whatever the cost may be, '''we shall fight''' on the beaches, '''we shall fight''' on the landing grounds, '''we shall fight''' in the fields and in the streets, '''we shall fight''' in the hills.
* From Hugo Ball's UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} Manifesto of 1916:
-->... '''Dada''' is the world soul, '''dada''' is the pawnshop. '''Dada''' is the world's best lily-milk soap. '''Dada''' Mr. Rubiner, '''dada''' Mr. Korrodi. '''Dada''' Mr. Anastasius Lilienstein. ...
* Ashton Wood's BackhandedApology to Jeep:
-->Dear Jeep,\\
'''I'm sorry'''.\\
'''I'm sorry''' my Jeep broke down before it even left the dealership.\\
'''I'm sorry''' it had 21 problems.\\
'''I'm sorry''' it had to be towed 4 times.\\
'''I'm sorry''' I wasn't more grateful for your offer of a replacement battery.\\
'''I'm sorry''' you wouldn't offer me a replacement or refund.\\
But most of all '''I'm sorry'''... I BOUGHT A JEEP
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