A poetic technique employing repetition that creates chain-like connections between lines or stanzas, often through anadiplosis where the final word or phrase of one line becomes the opening of the next. This creates momentum and structural unity as each link connects to what precedes and follows it. The repetition can be exact or involve variation while maintaining recognizable echoes. Walt Whitman extensively used chain repetition in works like "Song of Myself," where cascading phrases build cumulative power. The technique appears prominently in biblical Psalms and liturgical poetry where repetitive chains create meditative or incantatory effects.

A technique where words or phrases repeat in sequence, often with the final word of one line becoming the first word of the next. Creates momentum and connection between lines or stanzas. Common in psalms and biblical poetry. Anadiplosis is the classical rhetorical term for this line-to-line chain. Walt Whitman used expansive chain repetitions throughout his work.