N.B. The use of 'anaphoric' [10.52], here, is incorrect. He means 'analeptic'. Analepsis is a referring to the past. What he might have wanted to say is that the pronoun 'it' has no antecedent - except for the title, which of course raises questions of where the work begins, where the incipient is.
Can you do some videos on the Robert Browning poems please?
N.B. The use of 'anaphoric' [10.52], here, is incorrect. He means 'analeptic'. Analepsis is a referring to the past. What he might have wanted to say is that the pronoun 'it' has no antecedent - except for the title, which of course raises questions of where the work begins, where the incipient is.