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Question
Seeming still, yet still in motion
Identify other examples from the poem for alliteration.
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Solution
Other examples for alliteration from this poem:
- River, river, little river
- Through the flowers and foliage glancing
- River, river Swelling river!
- On you rush through rough and smooth
- Over rocks, by rose – banks, sweeping
- River, river! Brimming river!
- River, river! Headlong river!
- Down you dash into the sea.
- The sea that line hath never sounded
- The sea that sail hath never rounded.
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