Here is the greatest quote on alliteration by Charles Churchill "Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid."
How do the sound devices that we looked at contribute to your understanding of the poems that we read in class? How is your search for a song going? Was it easy to find? Remember that we're not talking about rhyme (which is not excluded) but really similarity of sound or dissonance.

Good luck.

Aristotle said that the secret to humour is surprise. Do you think that the surprise ending in this week's poem adds a humouristic tone to the poem? What's your reading of this narrative poem?