Assonance
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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the "oo" (ou/ue) sound is repeated within the sentence and is assonant.
Assonance is more a feature of verse than prose. It is used in (mainly modern) English-language poetry, and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish and Celtic languages.
The eponymous student of Willy Russell's Educating Rita described it as "getting the rhyme wrong".
- Hear the mellow wedding bells. — Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"
- And murmuring of innumerable bees - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess VII.203
- The crumbling thunder of seas — Robert Louis Stevenson
- How now brown cow — Unknown
- That solitude which suits abstruser musings - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[edit] See also
- Alliterationcs:Asonance
et:Assonants fr:Assonance hr:Asonanca ka:ასონანსი no:Assonans ru:Ассонанс sv:Assonans wa:Assounance
