assonanced

Like the preceding, this corrido is known only in Tagalog, and is written in 12-syllable assonanced lines.

Filipino Popular Tales

This poetry is written in ten - or twelve - syllable verses grouped, at first in assonanced, later in rhymed,

Four Arthurian Romances

The "Crónica" is in prose, but in the portions concerned with the accounts attributed by it to the minstrels it has been discovered that the seeming prose will, in places, readily break up into assonanced verses of the epic type.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

Boethius, in assonanced decasyllabic _laisses_, -- even in its present form probably older than our starting-point, and, it may be, two centuries older in its first form, -- is indeed not lyrical; nor is the famous and vigorous verse-history of the Albigensian War in _chanson_ style; nor the scanty remnants of other _chansons_, _Girart de

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

MS. of _Aliscans_ is not the original, for it is rhymed, not assonanced, a practically infallible test.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

In particular, the long maintenance of the mono-rhymed, or even the single-assonanced, _tirade_ depends almost entirely upon its being delivered _vivâ voce_.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

By degrees, also, the ten-syllabled line (which in some examples has an octosyllabic tail-line not assonanced at the end of every _laisse_) gave way in its turn to the victorious Alexandrine.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

Yet the remarks on assonance, and on long mono-rhymed or single-assonanced tirades, in his note on Berceo (_History of Spanish Literature_, vol.i. p. 27), show almost entire ignorance of the whole prosody of the

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

The Spanish ballads are uniformly written in trochaic octosyllables (capable of reduction or extension to six, seven, or nine), regularly assonanced in the second and fourth line, but not necessarily showing either rhyme or assonance in the first and third.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

And yet again, if he has been fortunately gifted by nature with that appreciation of form which saves the critic from mere prejudice and crotchet, from mere partiality, he will, I believe, go further still, and say that while owing something to spirit, they owe most to form itself, to the form of the single-assonanced or mono-rhymed _tirade_, assisted as it is by the singular beauty of Old

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