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Assonance

noun
1.
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.  Synonym: vowel rhyme.






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... Quarterly for January opens with "A Prayer for the New Year", by Frederick R. Chenault. Mr. Chenault is a poet of the first order so far as inspiration is concerned, but his work is frequently marred by irregularity of metre, and the use of assonance in place of rhyme. The metre of this poem is correct, but the two attempted rhymes "deeper-meeker" and "supremely-sincerely" are technically no more than assonant sounds. Pres. Fritter writes very powerfully on our ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Words linked to "Assonance" :   rhyme, rime, assonant, vowel rhyme, assonate



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