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Assonance

Assonance is more a feature of Verse than Prose . It is used in (mainly modern) English-language poetry, and is particularly important in Old French , Spanish and Celtic Languages .

The Eponymous student of Willy Russell's Educating Rita described it as "getting the rhyme wrong".

Hear the mellow wedding bells. — Edgar Allan Poe , " The Bells "

And murmuring of innu'''mer'''able bees - Alfred Lord Tennyson , ''The Princess'' VII.203

The crumbling thunder of seas — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm hunched over emotions just flows over these cold sh'''ou'''lders are both frozen you don't kn'''ow''' me. - Eminem

SEE ALSO

Alliteration