In yesterday's session of my course on The Grateful Dead, we lingered over a line from the song "Let It Grow", by Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow, from the 1973 album "Wake of the Flood": "See the sun sparkle in the reeds; silver beads pass into the sea." It begins and ends with the homonym "see/sea"; it has internal rhyme ("reeds/beads"); it is full of alliteration ("see," "sun", "sparkle", "silver", "sea"); and even the "p" sounds of "sparkle" and "pass" contribute to the sounds weaving together. As a pun, the homonym also encouraged us to hear "read" in "reeds" and "beats" in "beads" (an interpretive style inspired by "Finnegans Wake"). (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 16 April 2026)