A Study of Alliteration

Inspire, instruct insolent insurgents
To teach tolerant townsmen
Virulent, vitriolic violence
Uprising, unrest, anger-
Stir sleeping scorpions
Make men mad!

Fear fierce fiery fury, fools! 
Thoughtless thugs! Thorough thieves!
Sleep soundly; snore sonorously
Heedless, happy, healthy, huge-
Doom, destruction, death, defeat
Unite yonder upon you...

Judgment, justice,
Come calling-come quickly!
Thought thou that thoughtless thieving
Unchecked, undeterred, unchallenged
Would wax without waning
Endless, everlasting, eternal?

Author's Note

Was experimenting to see how far I could go with alliteration and assonance....thoughts?

Reviews

[Rasteely]

I enjoyed it:) Although I wasn't reading it as a poem but as a study of alliteration. If I had read it as a poem then I think that it still would make sense. A lot of the words you use connect it like going from violent men at first and then doom and destruction second and then ending with justice and something everlasting. So I think this could work like a poem. Thanks:)

And also... I love alliteration:)

[Kameron Armitage]

I thought you took this tool of literature and applied it well:) congrats I liked it

[Champagne]

Very interesting. Well done. Your command over the language is superb!

[M.Babu]

I'm not big on alliteration but i enjoyed how you pushed it and did something with it.

[Dinesh Sairam]

Hmm.. I experiment a lot too. But I keep the primary experiments in the shelf and later use them in a poem. This, to me, is a dis-jointed idea. There's confusion splattered all over.

Stir sleeping scorpions
Make men mad!

snore sonorously

Unite yonder upon you...

Thought thou that thoughtless thieving

Would wax without waning

Meaningless? Yes. And a huge absence of the necessary figures of speech renders the poem numb.

Though I appreciate the idea and experimentation, as I said before, keep it in the shelf and use when wanted. :)

Keep writing.

[abhas]

and you have gone quite a distance with alliteration... ! and made something out of your words too.... which is worth an applause...

[HoorayForUnderdog]

Wow, it is not easy to write a coherent poem using so much alliteration -- but you did a wonderful job here and managed to impart a message. Kudos!

[Hello, Goodbye]

you remind of me.. i often do thisbut not so much on purpose. its an interesting read, a bit jarring in places.. but it seems that you wanted to go all in, so its understandable..