"metareference" meaning in English

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          "text": "The poem's second line, for example, concludes with the lament \"but my nerves. Lord these pensive endings.\" The latter can be read as a play on words, as in \"nerve endings\"; as a metareference to the end of that particular line; or even against the very end of the poem itself: \"the darkness now confronts me . . .\"",
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