As earlier noted, Joni's stuff is replete with alliteration. Most of her songs have more than several examples. It is quite obvious to me that she is an alliteration junkie.
It would be interesting to consider submissions of the "most alliterate" Joni song. Also, can anyone find one where there is no obvious, constructed, alliteration ? (or, alternatively, the song with the smallest amount ? Bob sart Who admires how natural her alliteration sounds (f's and c's and t's) I pulled off into a forest Crickets clicking in the ferns Like a wheel of fortunre I heard my fate turn, turn, turn PS - the earlier quote of the Coyote alliteration was woefully incomplete. I repeat the entire perfectly playful panoply for your perusal :-) (count the "p" sounds - not just in the obvious places - and there is a little stretch where the 't' sounds make a stand, too) Chasing some prize down And a hawk was playing with him Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes He had those same eyes - just like yours Under your dark glasses Privately probing the public rooms And peeking through keyholes in numbered doors Where the players lick their wounds And take their temporary lovers And their pills and powders to get them through this passion play No regrets, Coyote I just get off up aways You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway.
