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Original poem reprinted online here: "Black Stone on Top of a White Stone" by Cesar Vallejo Originally read: March 27, 2013 More information about the Poet: Cesar Vallejo I don't know whether to call the repetition anaphora or not.  Or for that matter, how anaphora works in general.  Maybe it's a case by case basis.  In any case, this poem repeats certain phrases like "I shall die in Paris" and "Thursday."  And, for a poem like this, does the anaphora or repetition serve any other purpose than to add to the psychology of the poem. Past me wrote, "Repetition of the day creates a desire -- this has to happen on this day."  What has to happen?  "I shall die in Paris."  In the first stanza the phrase repeats in line one and four.  And there's a sense of humor about the line when the speaker's feeling about the situation comes in, "it does not bother me" Also in the first stanza is the specific introduction of the d...