Cross reference topics for line 8

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

There are multiple cross reference topics for line 8. Choose from:

1. Use of alliteration
2. Places
3. The seasons
4. Water
5. Death by water

Topic: Use of alliteration

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other"," or at short intervals; as in the following lines:

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.
     --Milton

Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.      -- Tennyson

The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it.

In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were.
     -- P. Plowman

Please excuse me. There are some things in here that are not alliteration. I need some time to clean up.

S sounds:

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  9)  With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
  
  
• 110)  Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
  
  

Atter & Ma:

• 262)  And a clatter and a chatter from within
  263)  Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
  264)  Of Magnus Martyr hold
  
  

F and Ph:

• 312)  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
  
  

P:

• 326)  Prison and palace and reverberation
  
  

Ink:

• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
• 336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  

S sounds again:

• 344)  But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
  
  

Pretty obvious:

• 357)   Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
  
  

Ms and Hs:

• 367)  Murmur of maternal lamentation
  
• 368)  Who are those hooded hordes swarming
  

B sounds:

• 379)  And bats with baby faces in the violet light
  
• 380)  Whistled, and beat their wings
  
• 381)  And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
  

Topic: Places

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
• 9)  With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
  
• 293)   Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
  

Topic: The seasons

• 1)  April is the cruellest month, breeding
  2)  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  3)  Memory and desire, stirring
  4)  Dull roots with spring rain.
  5)  Winter kept us warm, covering
  6)  Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
  7)  A little life with dried tubers.
  8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
  
• 18)  I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
  
  
• 61)  Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
  
  
• 173)  The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
  
  
• 179)  Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.
  
  
• 190)  On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
  
  
• 198)  Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
  
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
  
• 327)  Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
  
  

Topic: Water

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
  
• 24)  And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
  
  
• 38)  Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
  
  
• 55)  The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
  
  
• 89)  And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
  
  
• 94)  Huge sea-wood fed with copper
  
  
• 135)   The hot water at ten.
  
  
• 174)  Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
  
  
• 182)  By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
  188)  Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
  
  
• 189)  While I was fishing in the dull canal
  
  
• 193)  White bodies naked on the low damp ground
  
  
• 201)  They wash their feet in soda water
  
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
  
• 257)  'This music crept by me upon the waters'
  
  
• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  
• 337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  
  
• 338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  
  
• 346)   And no rock
  
  
• 393)  In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
  
  

Topic: Death by water

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
• 47)  Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
  48)  (Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
  
• 55)  The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
  
• 70)  'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
  71)  'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
  
• 125)  Those are pearls that were his eyes.
  
• 172)  Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
  
• 173)  The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
  174)  Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
  
• 182)  By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
  
• 191)  Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
  192)  And on the king my father's death before him.
  
• 193)  White bodies naked on the low damp ground
  
• IV)  Death by Water
  312)  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
  313)  Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
  314)  And the profit and loss.
  315)   A current under sea
  316)  Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
  317)  He passed the stages of his age and youth
  318)  Entering the whirlpool.