Alliteration

Cardinal Wolsey.

¶ Hucbald composed an alliterative poem on Charles the Bald, every word of which begins with c.

Henry Harder composed a poem of 100 lines, in Latin hexameters, on cats, every word of which begins with c. The title is Canum cum Catis certamen carmine compositum currente calamo C. Catulli Caninii. The first line is—

Hamonicus wrote the Certamen catholicum cum Calvinistis, every word of which begins with c.

⁂ It is a curious coincidence that the names of these three men all begin with H.

¶ In the Materia more Magistralis every word begins with m.

¶ Placentius, the Dominican, who died 1548, wrote a poem of 258 Latin hexameters, called Pugna Porcorum, every word of which begins with p. It begins thus:—

Which may be translated—

¶ Tusser, who died 1580, has a rhyming poem of twelve lines, every word of which begins with t.

¶ The Rev. B. Poulter, prebendary of Winchester, composed in 1828 the famous alliterative alphabetic poem in rhymes. Each word of each line begins with the letter of the alphabet which it represents. It begins thus:—

⁂ Some ascribe this alliterative poem to Alaric A. Watts (1820). (See H. Southgate, Many Thoughts on Many Things.)

Another attempt of the same kind begins thus:—