Workshop 37- Alliteration

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.