Read the excerpt from "Digging." The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Which words in the excerpt are linked by alliteration?

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cold, curt, cuts

Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” - Quiz Quiz

Read the excerpt from "Digging." The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Which words in the excerpt are linked by alliteration?

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