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“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o‘er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…”
Assonance
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In this example, it is shown how it is mainly the sound is Assonance. The words can look completely different but still have similar sounds.
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By Nash, Michael, and Jacob
But what does that actually mean?
In layman's terms Assonance is a literary device in which the same sound of a vowel (pattern) or stressed syllable is stressed or used in a nearby word(s) in a sentence.
What is Assonance?
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Here are a couple examples of Assonance being used.
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In poetry, Assonance is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
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As you can see, there is a bit more to Assonance than you think.
The vowels create a smooth transition from word to word almost like rhyming, but when using Assonance the words don't have to necessarily rhyme.
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