How to Write an Alliteration Poem Without Books
- 1). Familiarize yourself with the definition of alliteration, which is the repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of successive words. The sounds can be made with both consonants and vowels, but the sound of the successive words must be the same. Examples of alliteration include: whisper while walking, every entity evolves and never numbly kneel.
- 2). Pick a sound you want to use in your alliteration poem. Focus on one sound throughout the entire poem or mix-up several sounds in the poem.
- 3). Remember that even when two letters are the same, they may not sound the same, which is not alliterative. For example: "knot and kite," "cut and certain" or "enter and eel" are not alliterative.
- 4). Write out alliterative examples to experience the style, before writing out your poem. Read these examples aloud to hear how they sound.
- 5). Write out your poem with alliteration in mind. Not all lines have to be alliterative. For example:
She fled and found fleeting freedom,
But ran back towards her chains,
Her heart hadn't healed properly, and was afraid of the consequences.
In this example, the first and third lines are alliterative, but the second and fourth lines are not. - 6). Read your poem aloud to check the alliterative sounds, as well as the rhythm and flow of the poem.
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