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]