0 the use, especially in poetry, of the same sound or sounds, especially consonants, at the beginning of several words that are close together:
1 the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words, as in "live and learn"
They indicate that the versifier avoided breaking more than one rule at once: verses without the alliteration also lack multiple metrical-grammatical requirements for it.
Where this choice is not influenced by alliteration, each term may have been intended to convey a specific image appropriate to its immediate context.
The final three chapters address the issue of cluster alliteration, with chapter 6 the high point of the entire book.
Indeed, many of her innovations are both brilliant and thoroughly convincing: her accounts of cluster alliteration and vocalic alliteration are particularly fine.
The usual assumption, it seems, has been that alliteration of the different velars has simply been a matter of poetic convention.
It appears that ornamental alliteration has here been made ancillary to the functional, the unnecessary rhetorically reinforcing the necessary.
Two exceptions have patterns of sound perhaps analogous to double alliteration which may have sanctioned them.
The rhetoricians generally distinguish between figures of sense, such as metaphor, and figures of sound, such as alliteration, but the distinction is rarely sharp.
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