Trumpkin's Alliterative Exclamations: A Collection

From Prince Caspian:

1. Beards and bedsteads! (332) - trochaic 
2. Horns and halibuts! (345) - mixed (troche + dactyl) 
3. Bulbs and bolsters! (346) - trochaic 
4. Whistles and whirligigs! (347) - dactylic 
5. Soup and celery! (357) - mixed 
6. Thimbles and thunderstorms! (360) - dactylic 
7. Lobsters and lollipops! (361) - dactylic 
8. Giants and junipers! (365) - dactylic 
9. Tubs and tortoiseshells! (372) - mixed 
10. Bottles and battledores... (377) - dactylic 
11. ...bilge and beanstalks... (383) - trochaic 
12. Cobbles and kettledrums! (384) (in thought) - dactylic 
13. Wraiths and wreckage! (385) - trochaic 
14. Weights and water-bottles! (395) - trochaic 
15. Crows and crockery! (403) - mixed 

And, in loving mockery by an owl in The Silver Chair: Crabs and crumpets! (574)

I didn't notice much connection between the exclamation and the surrounding passage, with one rather significant exception.  When Aslan confronts Trumpkin, we get: 'Wraiths and wreckage!' gasped Trumpkin in the ghost of a voice.  So here we have alliteration both on the R sound and also on the hard G, and then the two alliterative pairs are connected semantically, if you will, with wraith and ghost.  I think this emphasizes the devastation Trumpkin experiences in encountering the very Lion in which he disbelieved.  One might say this is the last gasp of his former Aslan-free life; his disbelief has been wrecked on the body of Aslan, and if the smug skepticism at the center of his being has been killed, there may be nothing left of it but a ghost or wraith.

Edition:

C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia. 1st American ed, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001.