Spring

In this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a specific alliteration jumped out at me. He  uses the letters "w" and "l" to do this. "When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush." This alliteration uses two consonants to really slow down the reader while reading this part of the poem. He does this particularly to emphasize the imagery he's using within the alliteration. "Long and lovely and lush," is strong imagery. It shows us the visual detail of the weeds during the spring. Without the alliteration, the reader could miss the importance of the imagery. It's significant because his poem about spring really connects to how we see, feel, and hear spring.