alliterating's Usage Examples:

may also refer to the use of different but similar consonants, such as alliterating z with s, as does the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or as.

friendless person, originating from the name being unusual in the 1970s and alliterating with "no-friends" (both start with n).

notable in the way it expresses the zeitgeist of the Viking Age with the alliterating expression: Hann vaʀ farinn fulldrængila.

The stressed syllables in each half contained alliterating sounds in six possible patterns, which Tolkien illustrates using modern.

of the poem are the names of the runes, connected by a few additional alliterating words as mnemonical aids.

in the translation of the fragmentary Old Saxon Genesis poem, in the alliterating phrase frēo fægroste "fairest of women".

Grimm (1812) and Massmann (1824) made attempts at the reconstruction of alliterating verses in the second part, but following Wilhelm Wackernagel (1827:9).

other Middle English poem, with over half of its lines containing four alliterating stresses rather than the customary three.

In Proto-Norse, the three brothers' names were alliterating, *Wōdinaz, Wiljô, Wīhą),[failed verification] so that they can be taken.

contrast because of line 10's "harsh alliterating c's and echoic 'compounded'" and line 12's "soft alliterating l's".

incomplete; the first being 2276 lines long, the second containing only 745 alliterating lines, corresponding to the first 435 lines of the first version.

Layamon's alliterating verse is difficult to analyse, seemingly avoiding the more formalised.

of the pause, or only having a single double alliteration, with one alliterating stress on each side of the pause.

Frequently such alliterating phrases show asyndeton, i.

The need to find an appropriate alliterating word gave certain other distinctive features to alliterative verse as.

seems simply to be a straightforward religious invocation with 'twice' alliterating with 'Tyr'.

Especially in the area of the Romance languages, the alliterating verse in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen was perceived as prose text, since.

been much debate on the subject of how lines containing more than two alliterating syllables before the medial pause, which are common in verse of the Revival.

Always rhyming or alliterating, these challenges created comical scenarios, such as the task to "Glue.

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime;

Antonyms:

disagree;