Assonance

The repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds.

Assonance can be described as a vowel rhyme as in the words date and fade; or in goat and soap. Because they don't end with the same letter, these words are exact rhymes, they are assonant.

• • fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks.

• "Hear the mellow wedding bells"

• "Try to light the fire"

Many examples of assonance can be found in the poetic work of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Bells

by Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells,

Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Through the balmy air of night

How they ring out their delight!

From the molten-golden notes,

And an in tune,

What a liquid ditty floats

• "I lie down by the side of my bride"

• "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"

• "Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground"

• "It's hot and it's monotonous." by Sondheim

• "The crumbling thunder of seas" by Robert Louis Stevenson

• "If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced." - "Deadwood" by Al Swearengen

  • "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" - slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners