Strokes or head injuries can sometime leave people needing to re-learn how to pronounce particular sounds.
It just so happens that poetry is all about playing with sound. Often, poets will make repeated use of alliteration, where they repeat the same consonant, or assonance, where they repeat the same vowel – to create all sorts of interesting effects.
We’ve collected lots of examples of poems that use the letter F, for you to practice your pronunciation. You can read them from the list below, or you can hear them spoken aloue in the audio version of this exercise.
| Example | Source |
| Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: | “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare Read full play |
| Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. | “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins Read full poem |
| The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; | “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read full poem |
| Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; | “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale Read full poem |
| The fox fled over the fields away from the farm | “F for Fox” by Carol Ann Duffy |
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