Returning to the same word, the same phrase or the same construction, at the beginning of verses or of successive sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.
In Inferno
you are my master and my author, you are the only one from whom I took the beautiful style that has brought me honor.
The "you are" returns at the beginning of both clauses, and the "my" is repeated in "my master" and "my author". The rhythm is that of a solemn declaration and puts Virgil at the center of the whole sentence, leaving no room for another authority.
Cantos I to IV: The Forest and the Gate, Dante, recognizing Virgil on the deserted slope, in canto I
love, which quickly seizes the gentle heart, seized this one for the beautiful person who was taken from me, and the manner still offends me; love, which excuses no beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his pleasure that, as you see, it still does not leave me.
neither the sweetness of a son, nor the piety for the old father [...] the ardor I had to become expert in the world, in human vices and in worth.
look how I tear myself! See how Mahomet is mangled! Before me goes weeping Ali, with his face split from chin to crown.
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