Building Blocks of Poetry Alliteration

Poets usually use various tools called literary devices to give quality to their works. Some of these will be examined in these lessons on Building Blocks.
They will include:
Rhymes
Alliteration
Assonance
Repetition
Pun
Imagery
Similes
Personificaion
Synbolism etc.



Alliteration-
This is a repetition of words starting mostly with consonant sounds next to each other or in close proximity.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/alliteration


When used for your title it stands out and lends itself to quick remembrance.
Sing a New Song


You often find it used for naming products films, songs messages, business names etc like:

.Stand, You’ll Survive on Single Street.
.Don’t Date Devils
.Poor preparation precedes poor performance

Why Use Alliteration?
alliteration
the repetition of a sound, especially a consonant, for rhetorical or poetic effect. Also called adnomination, agnomination, annomination. — alliterative, adj.

When used for your title it stands out and lends itself to quick remembrance.

Some businesses pride themselves of their alliterative names

Croydon Cars

Norwood News
Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely breach'd his boiling bloody breast.

Steve Seldon smiled on Sunday the sun was shining on the sea.

Sue sold sea shells on the seashore.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Doctor Dolittle
Fantastic Four
Invisible Invaders
Why Worry?
Secret Sunshine
wild west
Helping Hands
Some parents, conscious of the power of alliteration, give their children alliterative names.

Peter Pan
Jesse Jones
Billy Bennet
Wesley West
Lucky Luke

• http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1232050&page=60“
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• Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.”
• “A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thought the skunk stunk. The skunk thought the stump stunk. What stunk, the skunk or the stump?”

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/assonance-examples.html
Lesson
Type
Definition http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/etheree.html
Example
Alliteration Poem
Here’s an example from “The Swan” by W.R. Rodgers:

“A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.”
Here’s an example from “The Swan” by W.R. Rodgers:
“I saw lingering, late and lightless,
A single swan, swinging,
sleek as a sequin.”
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-assonance-poems.html



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Don't Date Devils
Fenny West on Sat 31 May - 23:17
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This is a song for singles.


Stand, you’ll survive on single street.
Wait for Boaz, shun Bozo.
Ditch Delilah, damn the devil.
Don’t date devils.

He’ll use you, abuse you and dishonour you.
Woo, wine dine you and then dump you.
Wound, whack, waylay and wind you up. (come on)
Don’t date devils.

He’s violent, insolent, devil-sent. ( a deviant)
Has no vision, brings division.
Childish, wimpish or a dictator ( Idi Amin)
Don’t date devils.

Has no regard for God or man.
Rebellious, licentious, flippant, arrogant.
With a sugar-coated tongue but a dog.
Don’t date devils.

Like Delilah, she’ll dance around you.
She likes your feature, not your future.
Don’t let her kiss the life out of you.
Don’t Date Devils.

She’s cool, luscious but not virtuous.
Flirts and darts from man to man.
Watch! She’ll snuff the light out of you.
Don’t date devils.

She’s slick, slippery, slithery, full of sin.
With a vile mission, shuns submission.
Wild, wayward, wordless woman.
Don’t date devils.

(Gen.3, Matt.4, 1Pet 2:22, 1Pet.5:8, John10:10, Ps1:1-3, Prov4:18, Prov. 3:5-6,Ps37:23,25, Ruth2, Gen.24,Jud. 14,16)


These are some titles have used for poems. Identify which ones are not alliterated.


Go after God
Rejection brings promotion
Saint, Son Straighten up
Beautiful Babe Bathsheba
The Tithe is a Test
Peace for the Prince of Peace
Miracle Makes No Belief
No Plan, no Peace
Woman with an Issue
The Stoning of St Steven
Philip Preaches the Prince of Peace
Being a Burden Bearer
God Gives us wisdom
Tests and Trials Precede Triumph
Justified, Pardoned, Accepted
Paul Pursued purpose
Process Precedes Promises
Prosperity from Austerity
Beauty from Brokenness
Let There Be Light in the Night
Diligence, Delivers Excellence
Recipe for Good Success
Rub your mind with the mind of God
Growing in the Grace of God
Of faults and falls
Turn Your Pain into a Gain
Be Bold Go for Gold
Sermon from a £20 Note
Alpha and Omega
Global warming is a warning
The Fruit of the Flesh
Great is your Grace Goodness and love
The Process and Price Precede the Prize
Wilberforce, the Force
From Tribulation to Jubilation
The High and Holy
Eating the Bread of Life
Fight the Good Fight
Go With the Flow