he jumped and hooted, laughed and wagged and wiggled with fleshy fullness). The nominal amplification provides poetic texture in the syllabic exchange of vowel and syllable, the quick, trochaic Anglo-Saxon stresses hitting the first beat of most words: "dipper, dapper, dopper, broad-bill, blue-bill." The alliterative distribution of the alveolars /d/ and /t/, along with the bilabials /b/ and /p/, maintain a drum-like rhythm that is syncopated by subtle vowel cadences: "dumb-bird, dumb-gird, mud-dipper."from Dale Smith: Bookslut: Marsupial Inquirer: Birds and Words
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