Alliteration Alphabet Challenge

Well done everyone, by the way, who managed to write alliterative verses both syllabic and rhyming.

Cleverly calculated, conquering constraints,
coffee cup created, cost cutting complaints.

Just a thought.. Is alliteration on its own enough to determine a passage as poetic?
(Because that's how I approached this)

I do understand alliteration occurring in poetry but in the case where other structural rules are applied, it only seems to be alliterative occasionally.
I can imagine many variations though.

In defense of my potential ineptitude, I did call them 'passages' in the original post :p

It is amazing how long you can keep the technique going. I was trying to make the one I wrote rhyme and have some meter as well.

Here is a link to Paul Deane's site on alliterative meter such as was used in Beowulf.

http://alliteration.net/fieldgd.htm

This is somewhat different from the alliteration used in meters that have a regular repetition of accented and unaccented syllables.

Whoa, that is extremely broad, and very much phonetically oriented.

Luckily I added rules to this 'Alliteration Alphabet Challenge' thread, but more accurately it would be called 'Alliteration-like but restricted and slightly more annoying Alphabet Challenge'.

I wrote one a few days ago which was much looser and and non-restrictive which rolls together so much nicer. I still wonder if alliteration was just an observed occurrence, and does so because words sound much nicer when they alliterate similarly - rather than alliteration being intentionally implemented. With no knowledge of alliteration, people would tend to write alliteratively (sparingly) so readers enjoy the ride(?)

so who is up for a K?

Youuuuuuuuuuu arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

haha...

kirk kaki kelaidescope kicked kisses kwick!!

love leaves, lust lingers
late-night leisure leaves left-hand limpness
lap lightens, loneliness lasts
lurking leeriness left life's lows limitless

Many moths move many mountains.
Much makes matter misty, mean.
Madder moonlight might move matter.
Much might matter, mild Maxine.

Niggling negatives nurture nasty nightmares nesting northward.
Nature's nemesis never needs necromancy, nectar nor nails;
neither nice needleworked nightshades nearby naughty natives.

Outlaws of opiates: Oden's occupation
outnumbering, overruling, ordering ovation
Outsourcing our oil, optimising ownership
oblivious of obstacles, outshouting ogre-lip

Outlandish Oden, oh Overlord of ogres,
owner of Osiris' Ocarina of omens
Overlooking outcasting ongoing opulence,
Oden's old ox-blood, ordains our openness

propably palpable paper
potantly pertruded plausibly perfect
properly painted past promises

Questioning queens
Quieting queries--
Queues quickly quieting
Questioning quirks.

Reverberating resonance, Rasputin roars
rearranging revelations, risking rapport
Religious reminders: retribution, remorse
rewording rubbish resurrection reports

Rasputin's ruthless, rebellious revenge
revised, rescheduled, rendezvous' rends
Rouge robes rinsed red, running remains
realisation reaffirms, ruling restrains

See ?

Seascape scenery
Scenario seems seemly
Seeing siege selah

6-3-2004 r.6-7-2011


Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

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