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Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance.
CHAPTERS ON JEWISH LITERATUREISRAEL ABRAHAMSAssonance, in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound but make no proper rhyme.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIA. VOL. 1 PART 2VARIOUSIt is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as assonance.
THE HARVARD CLASSICS, VOLUME 49, EPIC AND SAGAVARIOUSNot only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERParadise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced.
THE VOICE AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATIONHIRAM CORSONHere the assonance is -er (final unstressed -er in standard present-day English represents vocalic r).
MODERN SPANISH LYRICSVARIOUSThe use of alternate assonance in lines of fourteen syllables (pp. 211, 212) is a none too happy device of the author.
MODERN SPANISH LYRICSVARIOUSEach is ten lines long, and while the first rhymes throughout, the second has only a very imperfect assonance.
THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORYGEORGE SAINTSBURYHe talks of assonance and color, of stress and pause and accent, and bewilders me with his theories.
BALLADS OF A BOHEMIANROBERT W. SERVICEThe stanza before us is in debide scilte, where the two couplets of the stanza are not linked by any form of sound assonance.
THE LATIN & IRISH LIVES OF CIARANANONYMOUSWORDS RELATED TO ASSONANCE
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