Alliteration
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Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant. It is often used as
Via Veritas Vita (lat. "The path and the truth and the life", from Gospel of John 14:6). Motto of the University of Glasgow.
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado contains a well-known example of alliterative lyrics: "To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"
Alliterative verse
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In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most comm
The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse.
The replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark