Alliteration examples One of the most well-known examples of alliteration is the tongue-twister nursery rhyme, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peckers." This comes from the 19th century ...

A too-short poem can ruin this effect, the effect of out-of-context-ness. When there is poem-out-of-view, you feel lucky, as if you might have found the bit that matters only to you.