Repetition

Returning to the same word, the same phrase or the same construction, at the start of successive verses or sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.

In White Nights

I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that moments like this one, like now, I count so rarely that I cannot help repeating them in reverie.

“Like this one, like now” repeats the comparison to point to the present moment twice. The insistence shows that he counts these instants and wants to hold on to them before they pass.

First Night: The encounter, the Dreamer

thus I have lived, as they say around here, on my own, that is to say, entirely alone, alone, completely alone; do you understand what it means to be alone?

Second Night: The Dreamer and Nastenka's Story, the Dreamer

New dream, new happiness! New dose of a refined and voluptuous poison!

Second Night: The Dreamer and Nastenka's Story, the Dreamer

Why is he not you? Why is he not like you? He is worse than you, though I love him more than you.

Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, Nastenka

I saw myself just as I am now, exactly fifteen years from now, aged, in the same room, as lonely as I am now, with the same Matryona.

Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, the Dreamer