英语词汇alliteration的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

alliteration. An old device (older than rhyme) used in poet- ry, and less commonly in prose, which consists of the repeti- tions of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase, line, or sentence. The word derives from the Latin for “repeating and playing upon the same letter.” A good example is Tenny- son’s line, “The moan of doves in immemorial elms / And murmuring of innumerable bees.” The device has been much used and much abused. The poet Huchbald, who flourished in the ninth century, wrote the Eclogue on Baldness, which he ap- propriately dedicated to the king of the Franks and Holy Ro- man Emperor Charles the Bald. The 146-line poem has been called “a reductio ad absurdum of alliteration,” every word be- ginning with the letter c. Better known is the 1817 alliterative alphabetic poem by B. Poulter that begins “An Austrian army, awfully arranged/Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade . . .”

词汇	alliteration
词源	alliteration. An old device (older than rhyme) used in poet- ry, and less commonly in prose, which consists of the repeti- tions of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase, line, or sentence. The word derives from the Latin for “repeating and playing upon the same letter.” A good example is Tenny- son’s line, “The moan of doves in immemorial elms / And murmuring of innumerable bees.” The device has been much used and much abused. The poet Huchbald, who flourished in the ninth century, wrote the Eclogue on Baldness, which he ap- propriately dedicated to the king of the Franks and Holy Ro- man Emperor Charles the Bald. The 146-line poem has been called “a reductio ad absurdum of alliteration,” every word be- ginning with the letter c. Better known is the 1817 alliterative alphabetic poem by B. Poulter that begins “An Austrian army, awfully arranged/Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade . . .”
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