The document discusses alliteration and provides an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'The Witch of Atlas' as an example. It asks the reader to identify examples of alliteration within the poem excerpt.
The document discusses alliteration and provides an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'The Witch of Atlas' as an example. It asks the reader to identify examples of alliteration within the poem excerpt.
Alliteration in Literature The lines below are the third stanza of the poem “The Witch of Atlas” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. On the lines below, write down each example of alliteration that you find.
To thy fair feet a wingèd Vision came,
Whose date should have been longer than a day, And o'er thy head did beat its wings for fame, And in thy sight its fading plumes display; The watery bow burned in the evening flame, But the shower fell, the swift Sun went his way -- And that is dead. O, let me not believe That anything of mine is fit to live!