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 W, 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 |
| On meadow & river & wind-wandering weed-winding bank | “Binsey Poplars By Gerard Manley Hopkins” Read full play |
| When the frosty window veil Was melted down at noon | “Wind and Window Flower” by Robert Frost Read full poem |
| Now is the winter of our discontent | “Richard III” by William Shakespeare Read full play |
| She fans herself whilst I work willingly, my slow heat entering each pearl. | “Warming her Pearls” by Carol Ann Duffy Read full poem |
| O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, | “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read full poem |
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