assonance

• In this unrhymed poem, assonance is very carefully avoided. —  Frederic Mistral
• When I discover a bad assonance or a repetition in one of my phrases, I am sure that I am floundering in error; by dint of searching, I find the exact expression which was the only one and is, at the same time, the harmonious one. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• The employment of rhyme in place of assonance, and of the alexandrine in place of the decasyllabic line, encouraged what may be called poetical padding. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• In this place I will barely remark, that I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration, assonance, and even rhyme, in which natural predisposition we may trace the three degrees through which our Anglo-Saxon verse rose to its culmination in the poetry of Pope. —  The Biglow Papers
• Not being able to preserve the assonance, I have dropped the greater part of his title 320] Bogodanny (_bog = God; dat'_, davat' = to give). —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

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