Contest Description
Alliteration is a literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other. Alliteration typically uses consonants at the beginning of a word to give stress to its syllable. Alliteration plays a very crucial role in poetryand literature: It provides a work with musical rhythms. (Google)
A poem with alliteration. One of my favourite poetic techniques, which I use in many of my poems.
Any poem in alliteration form.
NEW poems only, dated from 23 March 2018 onwards.
Please date the poem.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
Poe
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness - from Paradise Lost by John Milton
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table - from The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky - from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge