assonance in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Most of the forms depend on number of syllables per line, as well as assonance, consonance, and alliteration.
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Many limericks show some form of internal rhyme, alliteration or assonance, or some element of word play.
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Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects.
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In three-line stanzas, the assonance is between the first and the third.
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His lyrics contain layered rhythms, multi-syllabic compounded rhymes, internal half rhymes, assonance, and ear-bending enjambment.
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Thus, an assonance is merely a syllabic resemblance.
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The poem is also rife with imagery, alliteration, and assonance.
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Furthermore, the lyrics tend to be written in eight-syllable quartets, with assonance in the first and third verses.
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It has assonance instead of rhyme and its lines vary in length, the most common length being fourteen syllables.
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Elements of the structure of the poem, like rhythm and sound combinations (rhyme, echoes, assonance, etc.) are often more important than semantics per se.
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