On 28/04/18 04:46, Karlin High wrote: > On 4/27/2018 8:28 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> It falls into the category of alliteration, which abounds in English > > As a poetry form, too - "Beowulf" and J. R. R. Tolkien's unfinished work > "The Fall of Arthur" come to mind. Sort of like "rhyming" the beginnings > of the words instead of the endings.
Most poetry until Chaucer foisted the French custom of end-rhymes on us. See for example "Sir Gawaine and the Greene Knight" or "The vision of Piers the Ploughman".
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