This article discusses the main role and use of anaphora in poetry, which is one of the poetic repetitions. The role of anaphora in the poem is great. It gives the verse great expressiveness, imagery and brightness. This technique is, as it were, a kind of poet's voice, helping to understand the mental and emotional state of the author. Anaphora is a stylistic figure of speech, it consists in repeating the same elements (sounds, words, phrases) at the beginning of each parallel row (stanza, verse, etc.)