| An epic like Beowulf was composed for the ear, with careful alliterations within each line. |
| It's the style — the rhetorical cadences, the theatrical beats and pauses and alliterations, the overwrought metaphors and wordplays — that American commentators simply can't match. |
| We are taken through a labyrinth of puns, amphibolies, alliterations, symmetries, inversions, analogies, and in a variety of tones. |
| Parallel constructions and alliterations appear in the text, which remains enigmatic. |
| The peculiar rhythm of the original, with the alliterations and vocalic concords, give it remarkable smoothness and force. |
| The alliterations in the original poem are certainly very important and activate the magic of the runes. |
