Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves and the last which dies.
All right everyone line up alphabetically according to your height.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense it has particular ways of catching an environment.