Editing Alliteration (section)

====Examples from alliterative verse====

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*"In the first age, the frogs dwelt / at peace in their pond: they paddled about ..."  ''(Moralities'' by [[W.H. Auden]])
*"Holocaust, pentecost:  what heaped heartbreak: / The tendrils of fire forthrightly tasting foundation to rooftree ..."  ''(My Grandfather's Church Goes Up'' by [[Fred Chappell]])
*"Chestnuts fell in the charred season, / Fell finally, finding room / In air to open their old cases ..."  ''(Another Reluctance'' by [[Annie Finch]])
*"Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; / Landscape plotted & pieced -- fold, fallow, & plough ..." ''([[Pied Beauty]]'' by [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]])
*"Effortlessly at height hangs his still eye. / His wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet ..." ''([[The Hawk in the Rain]]'' by [[Ted Hughes]])
*"As one who wanders into old workings, / Dazed by the noonday, desiring coolness, Has found retreat barred by fall of rockface ..." ''(As One Who Wanders into Old Workings'' by [[C. Day Lewis]])
*"We were talking of dragons, Tolkien and I / In a Berkshire bar. The big workman / Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe / All the evening, from his empty mug ..." ''(We Were Talking of Dragons'' by [[C. S. Lewis]])
*"We set up mast and sail on that swart ship / Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also / Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward / Bore us out onward with bellying canvas ..." ''(Canto I'' by [[Ezra Pound]])
*"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising / I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing ..."  ''(Eomer's Wrath'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]])
*"An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan; / It is hell's handiwork,  the wood not hickory, ..."  ''(Junk'' by [[Richard Wilbur]])
[[File:Mikado 02 - Weir Collection.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s comic opera ''[[The Mikado]]'' contains a well-known example of alliterative lyrics:{{sfn|Wren|2006|p=168}}<br>"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,<br>In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock,<br>Awaiting the sensation of a [[short, sharp shock]],<br>From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"<ref>[https://openlibrary.org/details/mikadolibrettoof00sulluoft ''The Mikado''] libretto, p. 16, Oliver Ditson Company</ref>]]