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Moreover their names alliterate, suggesting that they were indeed brothers.
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The second stressed syllable of the off-verse does not usually alliterate with the others.
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The poems, like the majority of extant Anglo-Saxon verse, are composed in alliterative meter, with four strong stresses per line, three of which must alliterate.
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- Use alliteration as a form of poetry
- (alliterative) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable; "alliterative verse"
- (Alliteracy) Aliteracy (sometimes spelled alliteracy) is the state of being able to read but being uninterested in doing so. ...
- Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase. "Alliteration" from the Latin word u201Cliterau201D, meaning u201Cletters of the alphabetu201D, and the first known use of the word to refer to a literary device occurred around 1624...
- (alliteration) The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter
- (alliteration) poetic device; the first consonant sounds or in words or syllables are repeated.
- (Alliteration) An instance in which two or more words in close proximity begin with the same sound.
- (Alliteration) The same consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry. For example, the sound of P in Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- (Alliteration) A series of words in a sentence all beginning with the same sound. For example: Sing a song of six-pence.
