Alliteration
Can you recognize alliterations and distinguish between significant and incidental alliteration? For each of the twelve poetic lines that make up this exercise, click the lifts (syllables, not words) that alliterate.
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men ofer moldan   ond eall þēos mǣre ġesceaft
     (Dream of the Rood 11)
Nū sculon herġan   heofonrīċes weard
     (Cædmon’s Hymn 1)
Be þām man mihte oncnāwan   þæt se cniht nolde
     (Battle of Maldon 4)
Ne sceole ġē swā sōfte   sinc ġegangan
     (Battle of Maldon 59)
frēondscype fremman.   Hine fǣhþo ādrāf
     (Husband’s Message 19)
ǣnġes ofer eorþan   eorlġestrēona
     (Husband’s Message 47)
ofer ðīoda mā   þonne ēow þearf sīe
     (Boethius on Fame 69)
Hwā wāt nū þæs wīsan   Wēlandes bān
     (Boethius on Fame 74)
wenian mid wynnum.   Wāt se þe cunnað
     (Wanderer 29)
þām þe him lȳt hafað   lēofra geholena
     (Wanderer 31)
ōwiht elles.   Eft is þæt onhworfen
     (Wife’s Lament 23)
sinsorgna ġedreag.   Sȳ æt him sylfum ġelong
     (Wife’s Lament 45)
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