Assonance
Like alliteration, assonance also imparts musical effects to the language in which it is used.
Examples of Assonance/ Assonance Examples
A few examples of assonance:
1.Notice the repetition of "u" in the following line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound without the recurrence of a consonant sounds which would make a rhyme within phrases or sentences. Love and dove is a case of rhyme as both vowels and consonants are repeated. But there is an assonance in write and ride as a vowel sound ("ai" ) is repeated. For one more example notice the repetition of "o" in the following line of Keats' "To Autumn":
"Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies:"
Like alliteration, assonance also imparts musical effects to the language in which it is used.
Examples of Assonance/ Assonance Examples
Lots of examples of assonance can be found in prose and poetry. Assonance is the repetition of a vowel. Assonance occurs when vowels are repeated in words which are close to each other. Sometime Assonance examples are too hard to find because they work subconsciously.
A few examples of assonance:
1.Notice the repetition of "u" in the following line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
“That solitude which suits astruser musings”
2. “The Princess VII.203” by Alfred Lord Tennyson is another example of assonance
“And murmuring of innumerable bees”