assonance
Internal vowel repetition
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words, creating a subtle echo: the long O in "go slow over the road".
Unlike rhyme, assonance matches only the vowel, not the consonants that follow.
Poets and songwriters use it for musicality without the formality of full rhyme.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
meter
Device that measures usage
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
- iambTwo-syllable metrical foot
trochee · spondee · dactyl · anapaest · pentameter · hexameter · tetrameter · foot · caesura · enjambment
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- repetitionagain, repeat, repeated, recurring, recurrence
- literary analysisliterary analysis, character analysis, book review, plot, critical analysis
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- poetry termspoetry, rhyme, verse, rhythm, meter
- descriptive languagedescriptive writing, vivid language, vivid detail, sensory language, sensory detail
assonanceconsonance
Harmonious sound combination
alliteration · perfect rhyme · sibilance · cacophony · end rhyme
assonancedissonance
Lack of harmony
cacophony · discord · harshness · discordance · stridency
consonant, resonant, resonance, consonance, dissonant, dissonance