The document discusses alliteration found in the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Wife's Lament". It notes that both "The Wife's Lament" and "The Wanderer" use similar elegiac styles and themes of sadness, exile, and lamenting from this time period. Examples of assonance are provided from both poems, such as "my first on earth" and "lonely and wretched I wailed my woe". Alliteration is also used, though not as frequently as assonance, with examples given like "to seek service in my sorrow's need" and "mournful of mind".