What Is Alliteration?
2. Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
This is the first line to another popular English nursery rhyme titled Peter Piper. It makes repeated use of the consonant “p.” The most used words include Peter Piper, picked, peck, pickled, and peppers. The words are rearranged in each line to produce an intelligible sentence that is challenging to sound out quickly.
The final line to the verses ends in a question. Reading out or reciting the entire rhyme correctly from start to finish takes considerable concentration to get the sequence of words out correctly. It is a fun literary tool for working on enunciation and memory of children, and those in speech therapy.
