al·lit·er·a·tion /əˌlɪtəˈreʃən/
 頭韻


 Al·lit·er·a·tion n.  The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -
 Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
 His vastness.   --Milton.
    Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.   --Tennyson.
 Note: ☞ The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it.
 In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
 I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were.   --P. Plowman.

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 alliteration
      n : use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed
          syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged
          rascal ran" [syn: initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, {head
          rhyme]