Editing Assonance (section)

==Examples==
English poetry is rich with examples of assonance and/or consonance:

{{Quotation|That solit'''''u'''''de which s'''''ui'''''ts abstr'''''u'''''ser m'''''u'''''sings|[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]|"[[Frost at Midnight]]"}}

{{Quotation|on a pr'''''ou'''''d r'''''ou'''''nd cl'''''ou'''''d in  wh'''''i'''''te h'''''i'''''gh n'''''i'''''ght|[[E. E. Cummings]]|if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit}}

{{Quotation|His t'''''e'''''nder h'''''ei'''''r might b'''''ea'''''r his m'''''e'''''mory|[[William Shakespeare]]|"[[Sonnet 1]]"}}

It also occurs in prose:

{{Quotation|Soft language '''''i'''''ssued from their sp'''''i'''''tless l'''''i'''''ps as they sw'''''i'''''shed in low circles round and round the field, winding h'''''i'''''ther and th'''''i'''''ther through the weeds.|[[James Joyce]]|''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]''}}

{{Quotation|The W'''''i'''''llow-Wr'''''e'''''n was tw'''''i'''''tter'''''i'''''ng h'''''i'''''s th'''''i'''''n l'''''i'''''ttle song, h'''''i'''''dd'''''e'''''n h'''''i'''''ms'''''el'''''f '''''i'''''n the dark s'''''el'''''v'''''e'''''dge of the r'''''i'''''ver bank.|[[Kenneth Grahame]]|''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''}}

[[Hip hop]] relies on assonance:

{{Quotation|Some v'''''o'''''dka that'll jumpst'''''ar'''''t my h'''''ear'''''t quicker than a sh'''''o'''''ck when I get sh'''''o'''''cked at the h'''''o'''''spital by the d'''''o'''''ctor when I'm n'''''o'''''t co'''''o'''''perating when I'm r'''''o'''''cking the table when he's '''''o'''''perating...|[[Eminem]]|"[[Without Me (Eminem song)|Without Me]]"}}

{{Quotation|Dead '''''i'''''n the m'''''i'''''ddle of l'''''i'''''ttle '''''I'''''taly l'''''i'''''ttle d'''''i'''''d we know that we r'''''i'''''ddled some m'''''i'''''ddleman who d'''''i'''''dn't do d'''''i'''''ddly.|[[Big Pun]]|"Twinz"}}

It is also heard in other forms of popular music:
{{Quotation|I must conf'''''e'''''ss that in my qu'''''e'''''st I f'''''e'''''lt depr'''''e'''''ssed and r'''''e'''''stless|[[Thin Lizzy]]|"With Love"}}

{{Quotation|I never seen so many Dom'''''i'''''n'''''i'''''c'''''a'''''n w'''''o'''''m'''''e'''''n w'''''i'''''th c'''''i'''''nnam'''''o'''''n tans|[[Will Smith]]|"Miami"}}

{{Quotation|Dot m'''''y''''' '''''I'''''{{'}}s with '''''eye'''''brow pencils, close m'''''y''''' '''''eye'''''lids, h'''i'''de m'''''y''''' '''''eye'''''s. '''I'''{{'}}ll be '''''i'''''dle in m'''y''' '''''i'''''deals. Think of nothing else but '''''I'''''|[[Keaton Henson]]|"Small Hands"}}

Assonance is common in [[proverb]]s:
{{Quotation|The squ'''''ea'''''ky wh'''''ee'''''l gets the gr'''''ea'''''se.}}

{{Quotation|The e'''''ar'''''ly b'''''ir'''''d catches the w'''''or'''''m.}}

Total assonance is found in a number of [[Pashto]] proverbs from [[Afghan proverbs|Afghanistan]]: 
*''La zra na bal zra ta laar shta.'' "From one heart to another there is a way."<ref>p. 16, [[Edward Zellem|Zellem, Edward]]. 2014. ''Mataluna: 151 Pashto Proverbs.'' Cultures Direct.</ref>
*''Kha ghar lwar day pa sar laar lary.'' "Even if a mountain is very high, there is a path to the top."<ref>p. 66, [[Edward Zellem|Zellem, Edward]]. 2014. ''Mataluna: 151 Pashto Proverbs.'' Cultures Direct.</ref>

This poetic device can be found in the first line of [[Homer]]'s [[Iliad]]: {{grc-tr|Μ'''ῆ'''νιν ἄειδε, θεά, Π'''η'''λ'''η'''ϊάδεω Ἀχιλ'''ῆ'''ος}} ({{lang|grc|Μ'''ῆ'''νιν ἄειδε, θεά, Π'''η'''λ'''η'''ϊάδεω Ἀχιλ'''ῆ'''ος}}). Another example is ''Dies irae'' (probably by [[Thomas of Celano]]):

: ''Dies '''i'''ræ, d'''i'''es '''i'''lla''
: ''Solvet sæclum '''i'''n fav'''i'''lla,''
: ''Teste David cum S'''i'''b'''y'''lla.''

In [[Dante]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' there are some stanzas with such repetition.

: ''così l’animo mio, ch’ancor fugg'''i'''v'''a''',''
: ''si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo''
: ''che non lasciò già mai persona v'''i'''v'''a'''.''

In the following strophe from [[Hart Crane]]'s "To Brooklyn Bridge" there is the vowel [i] in many stressed syllables.

: ''How many dawns, ch'''i'''ll from his r'''i'''ppling rest''
: ''The seagull’s w'''i'''ngs shall d'''i'''p and p'''i'''vot him,''
: ''Shedding white r'''i'''ngs of tumult, b'''ui'''lding high''
: ''Over the chained bay waters L'''i'''berty—''<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43262 Hart Crane, from "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" at Poetry Foundation.]</ref>

All [[rhyme]]s in a strophe can be linked by vowel harmony into one assonance. Such stanzas can be found in Italian or Portuguese poetry, in works by [[Giambattista Marino]] and [[Luís Vaz de Camões]]:

: ''Giunto a quel passo il giovinetto Alc'''i'''de,''
: ''che fa capo al camin di nostra v'''i'''ta,''
: ''trovò dubbio e sospeso infra due gu'''i'''de''
: ''una via, che’ due strade era part'''i'''ta.''
: ''Facile e piana la sinistra ei v'''i'''de,''
: ''di delizie e piacer tutta fior'''i'''ta;''
: ''l’altra vestìa l’ispide balze alp'''i'''ne''
: ''di duri sassi e di pungenti sp'''i'''ne.''<ref>[https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Adone/Canto_II Giambattista Marino, Adone, Canto II, stanza 1 (in Italian).]</ref>

This is [[ottava rima]]<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/ottava-rima  Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica.]</ref> (abababcc),<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/glossary-terms/detail/ottava-rima Ottava rima at Poetry Foundation. ]</ref> a very popular form in the Renaissance that was first used in epic poems.

: ''As armas e os barões assinal'''a'''dos,''
: ''Que da ocidental praia Lusit'''a'''na,''
: ''Por mares nunca de antes naveg'''a'''dos,''
: ''Passaram ainda além da Taprob'''a'''na,''
: ''Em perigos e guerras esforç'''a'''dos,''
: ''Mais do que prometia a força hum'''a'''na,''
: ''E entre gente remota edific'''a'''ram''
: ''Novo Reino, que tanto sublim'''a'''ram;''<ref>[https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Os_Lus%C3%ADadas/I  Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, Canto Primeiro, stanza 1 (in Portuguese).  ]</ref>

There are many examples of vowel harmony in French,<ref>Roy Lewis, On Reading French Verse. A Study of Poetic Form, Oxford 1982, pp. 70–99, 149–190.</ref> Czech,<ref>Wiktor J. Darasz, Harmonia wokaliczna w poezji Vladimíra Holana, Almanach Czeski, 2006 (in Polish).</ref> and Polish<ref>Wiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków 2003, pp. 179–185 (in Polish).</ref> poetry.