Someone dumb this down The repetition technique is usually used by poets to draw more attention to the idea and topic that they want to relay. In "There was a child went forth", the author uses the technique at the start and at the end of every stanza.

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The reasone poets repeat ceartin phrase mutiple times is so that phase will have a spotlight over it so the reader or veiwer may undertand the topic that the reader or vewiwer is trying to potray.

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it can make them lose love for themselves

i'm thinking it would be when compound subjects are joined by or, nor,either-or, neither-nor.