Alliterative and Rhythmic Phrases : Rhythmically Combined ones : English

Alliterative and Rhythmic Phrases

Alliterative and Rhythmic Phrases Index

The Medieval English verses are full of alliterations and alliterative and rhythmic phrases. The tradition of composing alliterative verses was, however, discontinued in the modern English period. Among the modern poets A.C. Swinburne was the greatest composer of alliterative lines.

The English language abounds in alliterative and rhythmic phrases. Few of the alliterative and rhythmic phrases have been compiled here for your reference. The following alliterative and rhythmic phrases have been selected from a Dictionary.

An able and eloquent discourse
For apt alliteration's artful aid
An artificial and affected style
To be beautiful and fair
To bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love
Bitter and bloody battle
Blameless and flawless piece of work
Bleak and barren hills - Byron
Blind and blatant arrogance - F L. Lucas
Brief and perfect bit of work - Swinburne
Bright and beautiful things
Bright and promising future
Brilliant and promising scholar
As busy as bees in a basin
To be calm and composed
Careful and conscientious craftsman
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
Clear and unclouded meaning
Clever and captivating eloquence
Commodious and comfortable house - H Pearson
Complex and complicated problems
Confusing and contradictory remarks
Conscious and conscientious artist
To be considerate and courteous to women
A contented mind is a continual feast
Cordial and frank hospitality
Costly and gorgeous garments
With courage and conviction
Courteous and generous cordiality - Swinburne
Crisp and clear expression
Cruel and cold-blooded murder - Swinburne
Customs and conventions
Dear and delighted friends
The decency and decorum
Dedication and devotion
Deep and dreamless sleep
A deep, determined, desperate draught
Deep-seated differences and divisions
Deficiencies and defects
Delicate and difficult task
Delicious delicacies
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman - Thomas Otway
Determined, dared and done - Christopher Smart
Devastating and destroying influence
The din and bustle of the city life
Disastrous and disruptive influence
Distinction without a difference – Henry Fielding
In moments of doubt and despair
The dull, drab, dreary life
To be eager and enthusiastic
To live in ease and comfort
In the easy effortless manner
An easy-going and extravagant person
Effective and efficient administration
Efficient and effective coaching
With an effortless ease
To be elevated to an exalted status
A man of eminence and ability
Endless source of enjoyment
Essential and indispensable
Everlasting and eternal truth
To exert effective efforts
An experienced and enlightened person
Fair and beautiful face
The fairest things have fleetest end
The faults and foibles of our society
Without fear or favour
A fearful and pitiful sight to behold
Feminine feebleness and frailty
The field is fresh and fair
Fine and faultless pictures
First and foremost
A flow of flawless music
The foibles and faults of one's life
To forgive and forget
Fresh and fragrant flowers
To be fried with fiery fume
Full of sound and fury
The fuming and fretting
Genial old gentleman
My guide, philosopher and friend
A happy and contented man
Health, wealth and happiness
Healthy and helpful attitude
The hustle and bustle of the meeting
An ignorant and idiotic person
The illumined and illuminating word
Incomparable incompetence – Swinburne
An indefinable and indescribable something
An inexhaustible interest
Inextricably intertwined disciplines - Yakov Malkjel
Informative and illuminating book
Inspired and illuminative language
To add insult to injury
Intellectual enlightenment and enrichment
An intense intellectual interest
Interest aim and activity
An interesting and exciting place - Pope
Intricately interwoven relations with each other - Toynbee
Invaluable and indispensable aids
Invaluable source of information
Irreconcilable incongruity - Swinburne
Joy and jubilation
A just and lasting peace
To be kind and considerate to someone
The kindly and hospitable clergyman - Havelock Ellis
The kind and hospitable home
Kith and kindred
Labour of life-long love - Swinburne
Laborious and learned investigations
Lavish and luxurious hospitality
Let us live and love
(It) lies like a log - Tennyson
What is life without love?
Live a luxurious life
A lively and lovable person
One longing lingering look - Thomas Gray
Look before you leap
Loud and rude laughter
Loyal and loving wife
The maddest merriest day - Tennyson
Magnanimous meekness - Wordsworth
Majestic and magnificent verse - Swinburne
Man of genius makes no mistakes
Man of means and mirth
Many a little makes a mickle
A mean and miserly person
To be meek and mild
Melodious murmurs of innumerable bees - Kilvert
In the merry month of May - Barnefield
Methodical, meticulous research
A minute and microscopic view
To live miserably and meanly
Certain misgivings and misunderstandings
Much of a muchness
Natural and necessary growth
Neither rhyme or nor reason
The next necessary step
Noiseless music of the night
To nourish and nurture
Obscure and unsatisfactory meaning
Painful and persevering efforts
Patience and perseverance
Let us live in peace and friendship
To lead a life of peace and pleasure
Peace, plenty, pleasure
Peaceful and prosperous years
Penitential and painful life
A period of peace and prosperity
Persistence and perseverance
Personal prejudice or preference
To pervade and permeate everywhere
Plain and simple faith
With pleasure and profit
Whom pleasure cannot please
Practice makes perfect
Pretentious presumption
A matter of pride and prestige
Private and personal affairs
Privilege and pleasure
Profound and fruitful influence
A prolific and versatile writer
Proper and becoming behaviour
Prosperous and peaceful life
Be puffed up with pride and power
Pure and perfect integrity
A quaint and curious volume - Poe
The rage and rapture of battle - Swinburne
To receive a rapturous reception
Ready and willing acceptance
To reap a rich reward
Regularly recurrent refrain
A remarkable and retentive memory
A repellent and repulsive person
Resistless restless race - Walt Whitman
A resounding and reverberating public scandal
To be revered and respected
A rich and rewarding experience
A rocky, rugged road
Rough and rugged way
The rough and tumble of daily life
Sacred and sanctified place
To be safe and secure
Safety and security
Say something simple
Seductive and insinuating music
Sense of relief and satisfaction
Sense of something strange
Sense of stability and security
To be serious and sincere
Serious, sincere, systematic service surely secures supreme success - Ruskin
Service and a selfish beast
Sharp and sudden answer
Shatteringly startling
Sheltered and secure life
Shocking and dreadful sight
The shortest and surest way
A simple and self-evident statement
Simple and sincere tribute
Sincerity and straightforwardness
Slow and sure
Softly speak and sweetly smile
Something of that sort
Sorrows and sufferings
The sound must seem an echo to the sense - Pope
To stand all the stress and strain
The still small voice of the slumbering soul - M V Seetaraman
Straightforward statement of fact
Strength and stamina
The striving and suffering scholar's life
A strong and sound society
Sturdy and sullen sunshine
Symbol of strength and stability
Systematic and satisfying explanation
Tangled and tortuous ways of thought - Swinburne
To have a taste and talent for
Tedious and troublesome travels
To take the time and trouble to do something
Toil and trouble
To be subject to travails, trials and tribulations
A tried and trusty friend
Never trouble the trouble till trouble troubles you
Try before you trust
The understanding and appreciation of the arts
Undue and unjust interference
Unfailing source of inspiration
An unquestionable authority on
Unreasonable or unjust derision
Unwanted and unnecessary things
Unwept, unhonoured and unsung
Varied and variable features
With vigour, vim and verve or vitality
Vim, vigour and vitality
Vivid and varied interests
Vivid and vigorous style
A voracious and omnivorous reader
To wail and weep for someone
Weak and weary person
The weary, way worn wanderer
Weeping and wailing women
A wilful woman will have her way
Wisdom is the wealth
Worse than womanish weakness
Young and fair
With zest and zeal

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The following alliterative and rhythmic phrases have been selected from a Dictionary. An able and eloquent discourse For apt alliteration's artful aid An artificial and affected style To be beautiful and fair To bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love Bitter and bloody battle Blameless and flawless piece of work Bleak and barren hills - Byron Blind and blatant arrogance - F L. Lucas Brief and perfect bit of work - Swinburne Bright and beautiful things Bright and promising future Brilliant and promising scholar As busy as bees in a basin To be calm and composed Careful and conscientious craftsman A cheerful wife is the joy of life. Clear and unclouded meaning Clever and captivating eloquence Commodious and comfortable house - H Pearson Complex and complicated problems Confusing and contradictory remarks Conscious and conscientious artist To be considerate and courteous to women A contented mind is a continual feast Cordial and frank hospitality Costly and gorgeous garments With courage and conviction Courteous and generous cordiality - Swinburne Crisp and clear expression Cruel and cold-blooded murder - Swinburne Customs and conventions Dear and delighted friends The decency and decorum Dedication and devotion Deep and dreamless sleep A deep, determined, desperate draught Deep-seated differences and divisions Deficiencies and defects Delicate and difficult task Delicious delicacies Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman - Thomas Otway Determined, dared and done - Christopher Smart Devastating and destroying influence The din and bustle of the city life Disastrous and disruptive influence Distinction without a difference – Henry Fielding In moments of doubt and despair The dull, drab, dreary life To be eager and enthusiastic To live in ease and comfort In the easy effortless manner An easy-going and extravagant person Effective and efficient administration Efficient and effective coaching With an effortless ease To be elevated to an exalted status A man of eminence and ability Endless source of enjoyment Essential and indispensable Everlasting and eternal truth To exert effective efforts An experienced and enlightened person Fair and beautiful face The fairest things have fleetest end The faults and foibles of our society Without fear or favour A fearful and pitiful sight to behold Feminine feebleness and frailty The field is fresh and fair Fine and faultless pictures First and foremost A flow of flawless music The foibles and faults of one's life To forgive and forget Fresh and fragrant flowers To be fried with fiery fume Full of sound and fury The fuming and fretting Genial old gentleman My guide, philosopher and friend A happy and contented man Health, wealth and happiness Healthy and helpful attitude The hustle and bustle of the meeting An ignorant and idiotic person The illumined and illuminating word Incomparable incompetence – Swinburne An indefinable and indescribable something An inexhaustible interest Inextricably intertwined disciplines - Yakov Malkjel Informative and illuminating book Inspired and illuminative language To add insult to injury Intellectual enlightenment and enrichment An intense intellectual interest Interest aim and activity An interesting and exciting place - Pope Intricately interwoven relations with each other - Toynbee Invaluable and indispensable aids Invaluable source of information Irreconcilable incongruity - Swinburne Joy and jubilation A just and lasting peace To be kind and considerate to someone The kindly and hospitable clergyman - Havelock Ellis The kind and hospitable home Kith and kindred Labour of life-long love - Swinburne Laborious and learned investigations Lavish and luxurious hospitality Let us live and love (It) lies like a log - Tennyson What is life without love? Live a luxurious life A lively and lovable person One longing lingering look - Thomas Gray Look before you leap Loud and rude laughter Loyal and loving wife The maddest merriest day - Tennyson Magnanimous meekness - Wordsworth Majestic and magnificent verse - Swinburne Man of genius makes no mistakes Man of means and mirth Many a little makes a mickle A mean and miserly person To be meek and mild Melodious murmurs of innumerable bees - Kilvert In the merry month of May - Barnefield Methodical, meticulous research A minute and microscopic view To live miserably and meanly Certain misgivings and misunderstandings Much of a muchness Natural and necessary growth Neither rhyme or nor reason The next necessary step Noiseless music of the night To nourish and nurture Obscure and unsatisfactory meaning Painful and persevering efforts Patience and perseverance Let us live in peace and friendship To lead a life of peace and pleasure Peace, plenty, pleasure Peaceful and prosperous years Penitential and painful life A period of peace and prosperity Persistence and perseverance Personal prejudice or preference To pervade and permeate everywhere Plain and simple faith With pleasure and profit Whom pleasure cannot please Practice makes perfect Pretentious presumption A matter of pride and prestige Private and personal affairs Privilege and pleasure Profound and fruitful influence A prolific and versatile writer Proper and becoming behaviour Prosperous and peaceful life Be puffed up with pride and power Pure and perfect integrity A quaint and curious volume - Poe The rage and rapture of battle - Swinburne To receive a rapturous reception Ready and willing acceptance To reap a rich reward Regularly recurrent refrain A remarkable and retentive memory A repellent and repulsive person Resistless restless race - Walt Whitman A resounding and reverberating public scandal To be revered and respected A rich and rewarding experience A rocky, rugged road Rough and rugged way The rough and tumble of daily life Sacred and sanctified place To be safe and secure Safety and security Say something simple Seductive and insinuating music Sense of relief and satisfaction Sense of something strange Sense of stability and security To be serious and sincere Serious, sincere, systematic service surely secures supreme success - Ruskin Service and a selfish beast Sharp and sudden answer Shatteringly startling Sheltered and secure life Shocking and dreadful sight The shortest and surest way A simple and self-evident statement Simple and sincere tribute Sincerity and straightforwardness Slow and sure Softly speak and sweetly smile Something of that sort Sorrows and sufferings The sound must seem an echo to the sense - Pope To stand all the stress and strain The still small voice of the slumbering soul - M V Seetaraman Straightforward statement of fact Strength and stamina The striving and suffering scholar's life A strong and sound society Sturdy and sullen sunshine Symbol of strength and stability Systematic and satisfying explanation Tangled and tortuous ways of thought - Swinburne To have a taste and talent for Tedious and troublesome travels To take the time and trouble to do something Toil and trouble To be subject to travails, trials and tribulations A tried and trusty friend Never trouble the trouble till trouble troubles you Try before you trust The understanding and appreciation of the arts Undue and unjust interference Unfailing source of inspiration An unquestionable authority on Unreasonable or unjust derision Unwanted and unnecessary things Unwept, unhonoured and unsung Varied and variable features With vigour, vim and verve or vitality Vim, vigour and vitality Vivid and varied interests Vivid and vigorous style A voracious and omnivorous reader To wail and weep for someone Weak and weary person The weary, way worn wanderer Weeping and wailing women A wilful woman will have her way Wisdom is the wealth Worse than womanish weakness Young and fair With zest and zeal Alliterative and Rhythmic Phrases Index HOME PAGE