Tautogram

A Tautogramm ( from Greek tauto = contracted out to auto " the same" ) is a poem that begins in all words or lines beginning with the same letter. The Tautogramm is a special form of alliteration.

Examples

• Veni, vidi, vici
• Milk makes you tired men blithely
• We Wiener washerwomen would wash white laundry if we knew where hot water would.
• Ten tame goats pulled ten quintals of sugar to the zoo.
• Fischers Fritz fishes fresh fish, fresh fish fishing Fischers Fritz.

• Rhetorical term