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Write a 3 sentence poem based on the use of repeated consonant sounds





Mother Goose poems contain a great deal of alliteration. For example:

Betty Botter by Mother Goose

Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter;
if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.

So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter,
and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter.
So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Three Grey Geese by Mother Goose

Three grey geese in a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

Baker’s Reply to the Needle Salesman by Unknown

I need not your needles,
They’re needless to me,
For kneading of needles,
Were needless, you see;
But did my neat trousers,
But need to be kneed,
I then should have need
of your needles indeed. 

Alliteration in Tongue Twisters

Alliteration also makes tongue twisters even more difficult to say:

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood.
• Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed.
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