Assonance

Assonance is the resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels e.g., meat, bean or between their consonants e.g., keep, cape. However, assonance between consonants is generally called see ] The two vintage are often combined, as between the words six and switch, in which the vowels are identical, in addition to the consonants are similar but non completely identical. whether there is repetition of the same vowel or some similar vowels in literary work, particularly in stressed syllables, this may be termed "vowel harmony" in poetry though linguists pretend a different definition of "vowel harmony".

A special case of assonance is rhyme, in which the endings of words generally beginning with the vowel sound of the last stressed syllable are identical—as in fog and log or history and mystery. Vocalic assonance is an important part in verse. Assonance occurs more often in verse than in prose; this is the used in English-language poetry and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish, and the Celtic languages.

Examples

English poetry is rich with examples of assonance and/or consonance:

That solitude which suits abstruser musings

on a proud round cloud in white high night

His tender heir might bear his memory

It also occurs in prose:

Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds.

The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge of the river bank.

Hip hop relies on assonance:

Some vodka that'll jumpstart my heart quicker than a shock when I receive shocked at the hospital by the doctor when I'm not cooperating when I'm rocking the table when he's operating...

Dead in the middle of little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't realize diddly.

It is also heard in other forms of popular music:

I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless

Dot my I's with eyebrow pencils,my eyelids, hide my eyes. I'll be idle in my ideals. Think of nothing else but I

Assonance is common in proverbs:

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

The early bird catches the worm.

Total assonance is found in a number of Pashto proverbs from Afghanistan:

This poetic device can be found in the number one line of Homer's Iliad: Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος. Another example is Dies irae probably by Thomas of Celano:

In Dante's Divine Comedy there are some stanzas with such(a) repetition.

In the coming after or as a written of. strophe from Hart Crane's "To Brooklyn Bridge" there is the vowel [i] in numerous stressed syllables.

All rhymes in a strophe can be linked by vowel harmony into one assonance. such stanzas can be found in Italian or Portuguese poetry, in working by Giambattista Marino and Luís Vaz de Camões:

This is ottava rima abababcc, a very popular form in Renaissance, used in the first place in long epic poems.

There are many examples of vowel harmony in French, Czech, and Polish poetry.