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... alliteration When a poet writes a poem , he is saying something more important than the things said in everyday life ... alliteration ) . In Xanadu did Khubla Khan A stately pleasure Dome Decree , Where Alph , the sacred River , Ran ...
... alliteration When a poet writes a poem , he is saying something more important than the things said in everyday life ... alliteration ) . In Xanadu did Khubla Khan A stately pleasure Dome Decree , Where Alph , the sacred River , Ran ...
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... alliteration . Where it seems to come naturally , and strengthens the atmosphere of the poem , it is a useful and legitimate device . Further on in Kubla Khan Coleridge describes the river as Five miles meandering with a mazy motion ...
... alliteration . Where it seems to come naturally , and strengthens the atmosphere of the poem , it is a useful and legitimate device . Further on in Kubla Khan Coleridge describes the river as Five miles meandering with a mazy motion ...
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... alliteration was the chief formal device used by poets , and many continued to write this form of verse right on until the fifteenth century . In the old alliterative verse there were no rhymes , there were four stresses in a line , and ...
... alliteration was the chief formal device used by poets , and many continued to write this form of verse right on until the fifteenth century . In the old alliterative verse there were no rhymes , there were four stresses in a line , and ...
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