Even in North's Diall alliteration is not profuse, and similes from natural history are comparatively rare.
So far we have been dealing with euphuistic tendencies only, since in the style of Ascham and his predecessors, alliteration and antithesis are not employed consistently, but merely on occasion for the sake of emphasis.
The dividing line between alliteration and rhyme, and between antithesis and rhythm, is not a broad one[80].
Alliteration is not found in Guevara; it was an addition, and a very important one, made by his translators.
On the other hand it must be noticed that he employs alliteration for the sake of euphony alone much more frequently than he uses it for the purpose of emphasis.
So that we may conclude by saying that simple alliteration forms the basis of the euphuistic diction, just as we have seen antithesis forms the basis of the euphuistic construction.
In types B and E alliteration on the second arsis would bring the alliteration too near to the end of the hemistich, and is therefore rare.
For the rest both in these alliterative-rhyming poems and in the poems with alliteration only the types A and A1, B C and B C1 are frequent.
The beats which are accompanied by alliteration are, generally speaking, stronger than those without alliteration.
By the increasing use of this kind of alliteration it ultimately degenerated so much that the real nature of it was completely forgotten.
As to the quality of the alliteration the same laws on the whole still prevail as in Old English poetry, but are less strictly observed.
He had written confusing him with another critic who disapproved of alliteration and had also misquoted a stanza of his poetry.
Mr. Eliot's answer was a request to Gilbert to write in the Criterion and an explanation that he had felt in a false position since he rather likedalliteration than otherwise.
It is perhaps worth noting that alliteration is shown by certain names which are generally believed to have been introduced into the story in Norway or Iceland, e.
If we may judge from the genealogies in Landnámabók and elsewhere the principle of alliteration seems to have been generally given up in family names before the ninth century.
But sometimes the Semi-Saxon words and the English words are very like each other, and the alliteration can be kept.
In translating, of course, the alliteration is very often lost.
Upon these rules of accent and alliteration the strict form of Anglo-Saxon verse was based.
At times, too, Layamon has neither rhyme nor alliteration in his lines, sometimes he has both, so that his poem is a link between the old poetry and the new.
Colonel Otho Williams with sturdy alliteration to Arnold's old friend and fellow in the victory of Saratoga, Daniel Morgan.
Alliteration is the chief characteristic of the versification.
The poems consist of strophes of six or eight lines each, with little of the alliteration by which the Scalds were afterwards distinguished.
It will be observed in the foregoing specimens, that the alliteration is extremely neglected, except in the third and fourth instances; although all the rest are written in imitation of the cadence used in this kind of metre.
Yet when rhyme began to be superadded, all the niceties of alliteration were at first retained along with it; and the song of Little John Nobody exhibits this union very clearly.
From the fact that neither rhyme nor alliteration is any guide to the relations of these formulas, but seem arbitrarily introduced, we might conclude that the original type had neither one nor the other of these characteristics.
Be that as it may, we see that the elements of change we have described, alliteration and rhyme, have been busy with the series.
But masters of alliterative effects, like Keats, Tennyson and Verlaine, constantly employ alliteration in unaccented syllables so as to color the tone-quality of a line without a too obvious assault upon the ear.
Whether it originated spontaneously or was formally introduced, it will probably never die; the alliteration of the words would be enough to keep the phrase in the mouths of the people, let alone its justice and propriety.
Sigelint") is the correct name of Siegfried's mother, as the alliteration shows.
Hagen was therefore originally a Frank and had no connection with the Burgundian kings, as the lack of alliteration also goes to show.
Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words in close succession.
Then French influence turned the scale swiftly and decisively in favour of rime, so that in the extant poetry of the thirteenth century alliterationis a secondary principle or a casual ornament, but never takes the place of rime.
Again, it will be easier to acquiesce in a forced sense of bende in On bent much baret bende V 47 when it is observed that rime and alliteration so limit the poet's choice that no apter word could be used.
Piers Plowman is looser and nearer to prose, so that the alliteration sometimes fails altogether, e.
Unless the alliteration is to be monotonous, there must be many synonyms for common words like man, kni[gh]t: e.
Phrases are repeated carelessly; there is a great deal of padding; the versification is monotonous; and the writer is too often at the mercy of the alliteration to maintain a serious level.
This latter punctuation gives sore the chief stress in the line, and breaks the alliteration and rhythm, which is correct as long as sore is taken with rof, so that its stress is subordinated.
For not only is the language dominated by the grammatical rules of Panini, but the style is regulated by the elaborate laws about various forms of alliteration and figures of speech laid down in the treatises on poetics.
For they not only employ long and frequent compounds, but also the ornaments of alliteration and various kinds of simile and metaphor.
In the south this metre had greatly degenerated in strictness before the Conquest, but, with gradually increasing laxity in the laws of alliteration and rhythm, it continued long in use.
By the arch-euphuists, clauses and clusters of clauses were paired for parallel or contrast, with the beat of emphatic alliteration on the corresponding parts of speech in each constituent clause.
Such as the play of words in amentium and amantium, verba and verbera; one or two cases of alliteration and asyndeton, e.
Scottish literature alliteration not only blossomed but often overran and smothered the court poetry of the day.
It has been noted, for instance, that our ballads preserve fewer reminiscences of the time when alliteration shared importance with rhyme or took its place in the metrical system.
In the oldest set of The Battle of Otterburn, alliteration asserts itself: 'The rae full reckless there sche runnes To make the game and glee.
These were without rhyme or rhythm, but had alliteration and a parallelism resembling Hebrew poetry.
As thus far considered, alliteration is a device wholly dependent on the poet's fancy.
As Milton defined rhyme to be ``the jingling sound of like endings,'' so alliteration is the jingle of like beginnings.
There is another peculiarity in the style of Mr. Paine and Junius, arising out of this law of the mind, or this mania for alliteration, which is to continue the alliteration throughout the paragraph.
There is also seen the passion for alliteration throughout the whole instrument, and especially in the following passages: "Fostered and fixed in principles of freedom.
As alliteration exhibits a law of the mind, it can easily be determined, by the rule of averages, whether Mr. Paine and Junius agree.
In unsophisticated days an audience could be moved by the profuse straight-ahead alliteration of Piers Plowman, but this is too obvious a device for our times.
The principle governing the use of alliteration and rhyme appear to be much the same.
By cross-alliteration on these lines a rich atmosphere has resulted and the reader’s eye has been cheated.
He has a love of grandiloquence which is both Keltic and Saxon, and a delight in alliteration which is more especially Saxon.
The diction of this passage, with its alliteration and simile, shows that it is taken from some old poem.
