"Through me pass into the painful city,
Through me pass into eternal grief,
Through me pass among the lost people...
Before me nothing was created that
Was not eternal, and I last eternally.
<span>All hope abandon, you who enter here.
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Anaphora is the deliberate repitition of the first part of the sentence, in this case, the phrase "Through me pass" is use of the anaphora.
The use of the anaphora effect emphasized that only one reigns supreme over hell and everybody should pass through him before they can proceed.
So they've survived a trip. It was a fearful and a scary one. The ship had many close-calls, nearly shipwrecking many times. But the prize is won - they reached their goal. And now the end is near, and people are celebrating their safe arrival home. The ship is grim and daring. Daring because they are/were daring. And grim because now in rough condition. But the captain himself is dying. He hasn't survived.<span>And so the speaker addresses his own heart...
He's bleeding. He has fallen. He's cold and dead. Cold means he didn't die recently.</span>
