Like most of his poems, it is marked by artistic finish and grace, and many of the lines have a natural beauty of unsought alliteration and assonance.

She held this to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in authorship.

The rhythm of Beowulf and indeed of all our earliest poetry depended upon accent and alliteration; that is, the beginning of two or more words in the same line with the same sound or letter.

Accent, alliteration, and an abrupt break in the middle of each line gave their poetry a kind of martial rhythm.

In England this metrical system came in contact with the uneven lines, the strong accent and alliteration of the native songs; and it is due to the gradual union of the two systems, French and Saxon, that our English became capable of the melody and amazing variety of verse forms which first find expression in Chaucer's poetry.

It is written in an elaborate stanza combining meter and alliteration.

Footnote 4: Beowulf, ll. 26-50, a free rendering to suggest the alliteration of the original.

Alliteration itself may be rendered an exquisite instrument of music.

alliteration, rhyme, pun. repetition &c 104; sameness &c (identity) 13; uniformity &c 16; isogamy^. analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum [Lat.], Arcades ambo^, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; gens de meme famille

I lapse into alliteration!

What an elaborate piece of alliteration and antithesis!

There is nothing especially garden-like in its appearance; but, doubtless through "apt alliteration's artful aid," the name has become greatly popular, and it would be foolish to quarrel with it, or make any attempt to change it.

It is the only one of the kind which I remember in the poem, and would have driven some of our old hunters after alliteration mad with envy: "La casa cosa parea bretta e brutta, Vinta dal vento; e la notta e la notte Stilla le stelle, ch' a tetto era tutto: Del pane appena ne dette ta' dotte.

The following intelligence from the seat of war, though premature in some respects, and not quite new in others, may be acceptable to your readers, from A.A.A. ALPHABETICAL ALLITERATION.

Notice the effective use of alliteration (i.e., the recurrence of words beginning with the same letter), which is the basis of old-English rhythm.

Some of these employed rhyme as well as alliteration.

They are in the West Midland dialect, although Chaucer implies that alliteration was most common in the north.

That consisted of antithesis, alliteration, and the profuse illustration of every thought by metaphors borrowed from a kind of fabulous natural history.

The affectation "of the word" and "of the letter," for alliteration was almost as fashionable as punning, seemed, in some degree, to bring back English composition to the barbarous rules of the ancient Anglo-Saxons, the merit of whose poems consisted, not in the ideas, but in the quaint arrangement of the words, and the regular recurrence of some favourite sound or letter.

Alliteration is one of those beauties Mr. Benson so much admired, and in praise of which he has a long dissertation in his letters on translated verse.

Mr. Pitt thought this article far less considerable than Mr. Benson did; but says he, 'since you are so fond of alliteration, the following couplet upon Cardinal Woolsey will not displease you, 'Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred, How high his honour holds his haughty head.

Some late writers, under the notion of imitating these two great versifiers in this point, run into downright affectation, and are guilty of the most improper and ridiculous expressions, provided there be but an alliteration.

Mr. Upton, in his letter concerning Spencer, observes, that alliteration is ridiculed too in Chaucer, in a passage which every reader does not understand.

If in the morning you wear a long cravat fastened by a pin, be careful to avoid what may be called alliteration of colour.

Out of the répertoire of her family names she had fished up this alliteration, and "Bertie" was reserved for those behind the scenes.