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Best of Two Worlds

Birds on a telephone wire
make the best of two worlds.
Sated with food from nature's feast
they rest after dinner.
And, unaware of the human talk
flowing silently beneath their feet,
They drowsily discuss where
they will dine tomorrow.

—Elizabeth Loeks Bouman

In the boxes below, type the alliterative words in the first two lines of "Best of Two Worlds" that have the / w/ sound at the beginning.

Line 1:

Line 2:

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Alliterative words are words that start with the same sound. In a poem, a line is a single row of text. In this passage, the alliterative words using the /w/ sound are as follows:

Line 1: Wire

Line 2: Worlds

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