Alliteration
Is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate: is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate:
Is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate: is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby
words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent
sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In Old English
alliterative meter, alliteration is the principal organizing device of the
verse line: the verse is unrhymed; each line is divided into two half-lines of
two strong stresses by a decisive pause, or caesura; and at least one, and usually
both, of the two stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with the
first stressed syllable of the second half-line. (In this type of versification a
vowel was considered to alliterate with any other vowel.) A number of Middle
English poems, such as William Langland's Piers Plowman and the romance Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, both written in the fourteenth century, continued
to use and play variations upon the old alliterative meter. (See strong-stress
meters.) In the opening line of Piers Plowman, for example, all four of the
stressed syllables alliterate:
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