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Alliteration, assonance, anyone? (Discussion)

avicster saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 19:55:47 -0000 ( Link )

The title is rather self-explanatory, but still here’s a refresher:
Alliteration is the repeated occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in the same phrase. An example is the Mother Goose tongue-twister, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers …”. usually used as a form of figurative language.

In poetry, alliteration may also refer to repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem’s meter, are stressed as if they were word-initial, as in James Thomson’s verse “Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along”.

Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, such as,
A cloud of eider down draws around me softening the sound – “A pillow of winds” by Pink Floyd
With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground. – “Law (Earthlings on Fire)” by David Bowie

So people, pick as per preference, muse about the blues or whatever cooks your goose.

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  1. lucyinthesky saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 20:17:34 -0000 ( Link )

    This is really tricky…it’s so hard to make alliterative poetry sound good. I’ll give it a shot but it won’t be very impressive.

    Did your doctor determine the dosage for your dying diction?
    Fruitless formations, fascinatingly futile, the fervor of format and fluidity
    The fanatics flourish; feeling forsaken, keeling forwards,
    reeling, stealing, revealing, no faith nor faith healing found here.
    Our pens are on fire – higher and higher does the spire of smoke inspire
    the choir of liars in me

    Next!
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  2. lucyinthesky saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 20:35:28 -0000 ( Link )

    Hm I have more to add to that one, I think it’s too short.

    ...do they require or desire any of my weepy words?
    Will they write about whether the right words were really there, or if the reality of their wearied wisecracks would be wooden to these weathered workers? I would only wish that these wanderers of this world wake me, shake me, any way to make me see – that the pen has not forsaken me.

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  3. avicster saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 21:46:36 -0000 ( Link )

    Wow, we were really waiting for this weren’t we?
    Veiled behind the veneer of a versifier is a very weird irony
    Beneath and underneath the sheath you feel your passion seethe
    The sound resounds around the icy underground as you breathe

    Fear to fancy if it’s favorable fortune or free will
    Deterministic dilemmas do leave me dumbfounded still

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  4. avicster saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 21:58:05 -0000 ( Link )

    ...needs a couple more lines

    You tried to hide but have to ride this tide inside you mind
    You are too far to mar the scimitar’s scar that made you blind

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  5. avicster saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 22:19:55 -0000 ( Link )

    You know what I just realized, rap verse is largely based on assonance!

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  6. lucyinthesky saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 23:37:11 -0000 ( Link )

    Nice! I especially like that last line: “you are too far to mar the scimitar’s scar that made you blind”. Very nice. True, when I try and say the lines out loud they sound like a rap song – i guess rap is based on a lot of alliteration and assonance. You should become a rapper avicster. :)

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  7. avicster saidFri, 19 Dec 2008 23:55:52 -0000 ( Link )

    Haha, thanks for the suggestion, but that would require an exponential climb in my coolness quotient! With my corporate lookie and pseudo-intellectual rants I’d be “chewed up and spit out and booed off stage”! Maybe I could dress up like my dino avatar, it’s way cooler than I am :)

    Speaking of rap, have you seen these: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbxA8a_M_s
    http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

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  8. lucyinthesky saidSat, 20 Dec 2008 00:24:15 -0000 ( Link )

    Haha Yes! Brilliant. But Weird Al annoys me…Flight of the Conchords I can handle. Okay, here I go.

    Das land des lächelns, sweetly
    Sorrows of smiles from somewhere softly
    Lives are living lies and live in lively lies
    mein ganzes herz, like lovebird, fleetly flees and flies;
    Utopia uncovered, misaligned myopia of sight to seek what’s seldom sought -
    so distraught as you forgot the corrosive condition of a caller whom now has naught;
    But know the notion of the knightly need is as needless as the nacht of dangerous deed.

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  9. avicster saidSat, 20 Dec 2008 22:04:34 -0000 ( Link )

    Eyes to eat, tongue to touch
    A fix of your tricks gets it all mixed up
    I hear a tear when you’re not there
    Fiercely forsaken, even by fear

    Dusty dream, saw you dressing down
    Never nary a notion of nosing around
    I try and try but why is it no good
    I think I lie, I think I should

    Who’s it to you? To me it’s you
    They say this thing through warm guns too
    They also say, it’s all a play
    ‘Tis too tough to get through today

    Pardon the pathetic poetry under performance pressure.

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  10. lucyinthesky saidSun, 21 Dec 2008 00:45:58 -0000 ( Link )

    Oh no, I feel bad now.

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  11. lucyinthesky saidMon, 22 Dec 2008 06:15:12 -0000 ( Link )

    For the due diligence in the deconstruction of dreaming-
    do the inquiries of inaccessibility interrupt its streaming
    Forgive me if I am fraught with fools and freaks in my heavy heart
    Demonstrations of mind’s limitations never known sooner since Descartes
    Forgive me if I seem absurd and selfish in my cessation of smiles
    Simply, sadly, siphoning the sorrows from these thwarted trials.

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  12. avicster saidMon, 22 Dec 2008 19:37:23 -0000 ( Link )

    Boy you’re really on a roll! Great job again. Anyway, here’s my bucketload of balderdash…

    Blinding blue blurs my breadth of view
    Burgeoning, but barely breaks your breathtaking hue
    Bianca :), you buoyant bubble of all things bright
    Bewildered by some unseen bête noire, broken brakes in flight
    Dive not deep into the dark dungeons of despair
    Beware the ruse, breathe out your blues, be not afraid to care

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  13. chandunr saidTue, 07 Jul 2009 17:15:22 -0000 ( Link )

    i think its a tough job for me but i want to try sumthing; betty bought a bit of butter but she said the butter is bitter so betty bought a better butter to make the bitter butter better

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