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 B, 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 |
| The barren boughs without the leaves, Without the birds, without the breeze. | “Going for Water” by Robert Frost Read full play |
| Bait the hook well; this fish will bite | “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare Read full play |
| Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft | “Sonnet 5” by William Shakespeare Read full poem |
| Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: | “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti Read full poem |
| When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me | “When You Come” by Maya Angelou Read full poem |
| Blackberries Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes | “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath Read full poem |
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