Returning to the same word, the same phrase or the same construction, at the beginning of successive verses or sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.
In Paradise
not to dispense two or three for six, not the fortune of the first vacant benefice, not the tithes, which belong to the poor of God
The "not" opens three times in a row the request of Dominic. The insistence of the refusal gives a rhythm of a list and shows a man who closes, one by one, the doors of the benefice before asking for the only thing he wants.
Cantos IX to XII: Venus and the Sun, Bonaventure, telling what Dominic asked of the apostolic see
the kingdom of heaven suffers violence from burning love and living hope, which overcomes the divine will: not as man overcomes man, but it overcomes it because it wants to be overcome, and, overcome, it overcomes with its benignity
Cantos XVII to XX: The prophecy and the Eagle, The Eagle, to Dante, about Trajan and Rhipeus
from here on my sight was greater than the speech shows, which yields to such a vision, and memory yields to so great an excess. As one who in dreaming sees, whose impressed emotion remains after the dream, while the rest does not return to the mind
Cantos XXIX to XXXIII: The Empyrean, Dante, narrator, at the beginning of the final vision
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