Assonance



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Used in poetry and prose, assonance is a phonetic device in which writers repeat similar vowel sounds without a corresponding repetition of consonants. Assonance helps to provide rhythmic structure in informal metrical schemes. The assonant i sounds in these lines from the John Keats poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (recited by an actor), function as vowel rhymes.

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Keats, John; Poetry; English Literature; Ode

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