Jubilate Agno
poem by Smart
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Jubilate Agno is a poem by Christopher Smart, an 18th-century English poet. The poem is known for its use of anaphora, a literary device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of several sentences or clauses. This technique is used for emphasis, as seen in the lines describing Smart's cat, Jeoffry, which begin with "For". The word "jubilate" itself comes from the Latin word jubilare, meaning "to shout for joy". Smart's poem uses this joyful expression within its structure.123
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