Assonance

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words as in, "some ship in distress that cannot live." The i's in those words have same vowel sounds but they do not have to rhyme. Assonance includes but is not limited to alliteration with vowel sounds.

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
  • A light night (This is also classified as an Oxymoron - The seemingly contradictory nature of two words)
  • I'm hunched over emotions just flows over these cold shoulders are both frozen you don't know me. - Eminem
  • My flow is in the pocket like wallets, I got the bounce like hydraulics I can't call it, I got the swerve like alcholics... Kanye West


Alliteration

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