Results and Discussion

Two thousand and three hundred eighty five (2,385) phonological devices were found during the
analysis of twenty eight (28) spoken word poetry pieces of Juan Miguel Severo. Of the 2,385
phonological devices, rhyme got the lowest frequency of 65 wherein the most commonly used
type of rhyme present in the pieces is "perfect rhyme". In addition, Bawiec (2018) said that
perfect rhyme as the most common used type of rhyme has long been used since our childhood
nursery and it creates prediction between two words. Alliteration gained 239 frequency and
plosive got the highest repetition of 87 among the other types of alliteration. Not surprising since
plosive is the most common type of stop sound (Arrosas, n.d.). Consonance appeared 458
times and the sound /n/ is the frequently used with 145 repetitions. According to Stefan Trost
Media, consonant letter "N" is second to the most commonly used letter in the Filipino
language.  Lastly, the sound device that got the highest frequency is assonance with the total of
1,623 repetitions and the sound /a/ gained 1,491 frequency that dominates the other vowel
sounds. Johnson (n.d.) stated that most consonance in the Filipino language has sound /a/ in it
therefore it can be concluded that it is a natural utterance in order to produce words in the
Filipino language. The discovered phonological devices are summarized in table 1.

Table 1

Phonological Description of Juan Miguel Severo’s Spoken Poetry

Phonological
Devices Frequency Rank

Alliteration 239 3rd

Assonance 1,623 1st

Consonance 458 2nd

Rhyme 65 4th

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