The poem uses alliteration here and there to add emphasis and music, and also to link certain words and ideas. In line 5, for example, note the sibilant alliteration of "strange" and "sudden." Part of what makes all this change so unnerving to the speaker, the shared sounds suggest, is that it happened so quickly. It didn't take long for the speaker's own home to become something utterly foreign.
That /s/ sound appears in the next stanza as well, with the alliteration of "sapless" and "seedlings." The sonic link between these words links the depletion of the speaker's generation (those "sapless roots") with the growth of the younger generation (represented here by those "seedlings"). That is, alliteration reflects the idea that the speaker's own roots grew dry in order to fuel the future.
This passage is full of more general sibilance as well, which combines with whooshing /w/ alliteration to evoke the very "wind" on which those rootless little plants are swept along:
Our sapless roots have fed
The wind-swept seedlings of another age.
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