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Frankenfodder attempts to propagate streams of consciousness, which reflect upon life’s philosophical and spiritual significance, Illustrating both the travail and ultimate possibility, through alliterative absurdities. Cleverly concocted and abiding by the single rule of every word starting with the same letter or same sound. Violating this rule breaks the oneness and attainment of this ultimate reality.

Alliteration

Definition:

The repetition of an initial consonant sound, as in “Seven slimy salamanders simultaneously scurry, securing serendipitous solace.” Adjective: alliterative.

J.R.R. Tolkien observed that alliteration “depends not on letters but on sounds.” Thus the phrase know-nothing is alliterative, but climate change is not.*

Alliteration (Urban Dictionary, Defintion)

Alliteration articulates an artistic approach aimed at annotating and arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments. Alliteration allows aspiring authors abilities above average approaches. Alliterative adroitness accentuates accomplishments (an appealing aspect appalling artistic arrangements attempt abominably). 

Another Example:

The Siege Of Belgrade

An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Dealing destruction’s devastating doom;
Every endeavor engineers essay
For fame, for fortune, forming furious fray!
Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good;
Heaves high his head, heroic hardihood;
Ibraham, Islam, Ismail, imps in ill,
Jostle John, Jarovlitz, Jem, Joe, Jack, Jill;
Kick kindling Kutosoff, kings’ kinsmen kill,
Labor low levels loftiest, longest lines;
Men marched ‘mid moles, ‘mid mounds, ‘mid murd’rous mines.
Now nightfall’s near, now needful nature nods,
Opposed, opposing, overcoming odds.
Poor peasants, partly purchased, partly pressed,
Quite quaking, Quarter! quarter! quickly quest.
Reason returns, recalls redundant rage,
Saves sinking soldiers, softens seigniors sage.
Truce, Turkey, truce! truce, treach’rous Tartar train!
Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vanish, vile vengeance! vanish, victory vain!
Wisdom wails war–wails warring words. What were
Xerxes, Xantippe, Ximenes, Xavier?
Yet Yassy’s youth, ye yield your youthful yest,
Zealously, Zarius, zealously zeal’s zest.

Many versions of this alliterative poem appeared in American and British magazines throughout the 19th century. This version of “The Siege of Belgrade” was published in The Era Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 10, 1902. Several individuals claimed to be the author, including journalist Alaric A. Watts.

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