- "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" (alliteration with the letter "s")
- "Infants in the arms" (alliteration with the letter "i")
- "Creeping like snail" (alliteration with the letter "c")
- "Full of strange oaths" (alliteration with the letter "f")
- "His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide" (alliteration with the letter "w")
- "And his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble" (alliteration with the letter "t")