| 单词 | assonance |
| 例句 | “For instance, The beer is never dear near here, dear,’ is unfortunate, even as an assonance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At his best, his assonance is thick and witty: “Overreacted, matter of fact, overattracted/To every ho that passed with her overgrown assets,” he raps on “646-704-2610.” Critic’s Notebook: Ratking’s EP ‘Wiki93’ Is Thoroughly New York 2012-11-06T22:30:05Z The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z After another Mercedes one-liner, he compliments her: “I like your consonance. I like your assonance too.” Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z For all the assonance behind the music, when L&S and their team did make music, it was beautiful. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z He still slurs his syllables, and he still leans heavily on assonance. Lil Wayne Becomes an Elder, While Logic Grows Up 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Here are all the hallmarks of old Wayne: concise construction, tricky assonance, oddball imagery, black humor. Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Each Sidestep the Traditional Album Cycle 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z She’s an entrancingly calm stylist, full of brutish assonance: “When it’s time to pop they a no-show/Yeah, I’m pretty but I’m loco/The loud got me moving slo-mo.” The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z That one note darkens the tone from ecstasy to assonance, from the choir to the blues. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z Its wonderful central component is its aural accompaniment, Gertrude Stein’s 1923 recording of her “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” with its intricately rhythmic patterns of wordplay, assonance and minimalist repetition. Nederlands Dans Theater Gets Offbeat at the Joyce 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The last stanza opens orchestrally with the varied assonance of "prismatic and metallic tones." Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z The splendid onomatopoeia of "hoary roaring sea" reminds us how well assonance and alliteration work throughout the poem. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z I think that the New Critical approach taken by British critic Christopher Ricks — breaking down each Dylan song according to conventional matrices such as rhyming and alliteration and assonance — is a bit reductionist and naive. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The poetry seems to perform hypnosis, the found rhymes and assonance and anaphora enacting an enchantment, a bewitchery; it seems to be giving subconscious advice. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The assonance on “Threesome” is like ice-cold wind, persistent and stinging. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “That’s part of what makes hip-hop so much fun, are the internal assonances of it, and they did an incredible job of maintaining that.” They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The fairy even hovers over Harbart’s suicide, and a similar lighter touch informs the prose, enlivened by assonance and alliteration. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return". Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z “The assonance of it, the rhyme of it feels really good. So maybe having an emphasis more on the sound of the words than the meaning is actually part of what makes this genre compelling.” Why you can’t get ‘Planet of the Bass,’ the playful ’90s Eurodance parody, out of your head 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z As the book’s translator notes, Shree writes in English fluently but chooses to pen her novel in Hindi to preserve the language’s dhwani: its unique vibration and resonance, often through wordplay, alliteration and assonance. Review | ‘Tomb of Sand’ meditates on the cultural diffusion that permeates India 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z My style has come a long way from Faulkner since, but I believe my ear for assonance and cadence goes back to reading him in my formative years. Lionel Shriver: 'Moby-Dick? Get on with it: did the old bastard catch the fish, or didn’t he? 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z I used to be able to sit quietly in the window seat, or on the bench under the same window in the long summer, and whittle away at words, frown over rhyme schemes and assonances. Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The lyrics of the pop music we secretly listened to, for instance, were “soft”: “Assonance is assonance but a rhyme is a rhyme. You can’t approximate!” A Father’s Final Odyssey 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z At the jumble sale, “Where ladies of the village fight like visigoths for pillage” he found love and assonance among the bric-a-brac: “Romance perchance prevails at humdrum jumble sales”. Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z It is hard to read Churchill’s words and not hear their assonance. Land ahoy! 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The copywriters have taken clichés, and added a toxic combination of anaphora and assonance. Is this the most irritating ad ever? 2013-07-09T00:41:00Z Unfortunately, tame translation is powerless to give an idea of the dizzy, whirling rhythm and the panting, galloping, neighing—if one may venture so to write—assonance of the first verses of this surah. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z It is impossible to reproduce in English the beautiful assonance—the play of sound and sense—in Gabriel’s greeting, as St Luke renders it. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It loses because it becomes of no greater import than assonance, consonance, alliteration, and a host of similar devices. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z Spangles glitter; the sharp clank of ivory and ebony castanets beats out the cadence of strange, throbbing, deepening notes—assonances unknown to music, but curiously characteristic, effective and intoxicating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The vowel assonance was after a time completed by the addition of consonantal assonance and then the invention of rhyme was completed. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Though his diction is much less studied than that of Virgil, yet his large use of alliterations, assonances, asyndeta3, etc., shows that he consciously aimed at producing certain effects by recognised rhetorical means. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z No absolute system of assonance or rhyme appears, and we are almost forced to the conclusion that the absence of this is in a measure due to the kind offices of Abbot Pedro. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z That fish is symbolic of the female, in consequence of the assonance in Greek between its name and that of the womb, delphis and delphus. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z It possesses two grammatical genders, not masculine and feminine, but the human and the non-human; the adjective agrees in assonance with its noun, and euphony plays a great part in verbal and nominal inflections. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Then the love theme is told in two lines of eleven syllables each, agreeing by rhyme, assonance, or repetition with the first.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In common with the older race of Roman poets he exhibits that straining after verbal effects by means of alliteration, assonances, asyndeta, etc., which marks the ruder stages of literary development. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It was a volume of "verse," with no sense at all in it, without even rhythm to redeem it, and with an abundance of "rhymes" that were not easily recognizable even as assonances. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z We shall find in these pieces the two special pillars of all modern poetry, alliteration and rhyme, or at least assonance, which is only rhyme undeveloped. National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z Otherwise, the rhythm bears the appearance of a six-foot accentual iambic, an appearance which is confirmed by the recurrence of a single rhyme or assonance in a throughout the poem. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It shows the same tendency to aim at effect by alliterations, assonances and plays on words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I object most emphatically to demands for rhyme, metre, rhythm, alliteration, assonance, parallelism, repetition of word or phrase or line, tropes or figures of speech, poetical diction, and any form of pattern. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And it may be that the queer music of Rabelais could be echoed, at least, in English by the use of assonance. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z In the second reading he corrects a bad assonance thus: His only visitants a straggling sheep, The stone-chat, or the sand-lark, restless bird, Piping along the margin of the lake.... The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Partsch, a German critic, developed the theory that The Nibelungenlied was written about 1140 and that rhyme was introduced by a later poet to take the place of the stronger assonances in the original version. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z This enabled him to endue his poems with their mystical trembling melody, not by abstracting his inner music in definite melodies, but by fixing it in assonance, rhymes and rhythmic waves. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Kennedy and Sorensen, of course, weren’t thinking of anaphoras or assonance. Ted Sorensen's Legacy for Writers 2010-11-02T19:00:00Z In other words, assonance is an improper or imperfect form of rhyme, in which the ear is satisfied with the incomplete identity of sound which the vowel gives without the aid of consonants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Another assonance is got rid of in the later editions, the "thistle thinly sprinkled o'er," and the passage now reads melodiously as follows: His only visitants a straggling sheep. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The style abounds in archaism, alliteration, and assonance. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes In the first place it is unimportant and secondly incorrect, for he never wrote a poem without rhyme, except in the later unworthy years, when now and then he substituted assonances. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Each line must contain a fixed number of syllables, whilst the different metres vary as to the employment of internal and end rhyme, assonance and alliteration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It is not so in several literatures, such as in Spanish, where assonance is systematically cultivated as a literary ornament. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Paradise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced. The Voice and Spiritual Education The assonance, which is characteristic of the earlier Chansons, is an imperfect rhyme, in which identity of vowel sound is all that is necessary. A Short History of French Literature His work exhibits ease and elasticity of rhythm, liquid smoothness of assonance, sympathetic beauty of thought, with subtle skill in wedding sense to sound. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series Alliteration is always observed in the latter half of each line and assonances are found knitting up the half-lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Like alliteration, assonance is a very frequent and very effective ornament of prose style, but such correspondence in vowel-sound is usually accidental and involuntary, an instinctive employment of the skill of the writer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The gradual development of rime from assonance among the Romance peoples suggests the same thing. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The uniformity, however, of the terminations of Provençal makes the assonances more closely approach rhyme than is the case in northern poetry. A Short History of French Literature Only an assonance, not a rime, seems intended. The Lay of Havelok the Dane Quantity and elision are ignored, and rhymes, assonances, alliterations and harmonies abound in true Irish fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It is almost impossible to give practical help toward acquiring this gift of an expressive style; the ear for the rhythm and assonance of style is like an ear for music, though more common, perhaps. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation In the following specimen, assonance seems in some measure to take the place of rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But Mrs. Browning's eccentricities do not as a rule, though they sometimes do, lie in the direction of assonance. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The chief faults of this were excess of ornament, antithesis, alliteration and assonance, monotony of rhythm, and the insertion of words purely for rhythmical effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The artistic beauty of the prose, its haunting assonance, its supple rhythms make this Hamlet impossible save in French. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration and upon assonance. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Lines combining alliteration and rime or alliteration and assonance. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History What is known as assonance, that is to say, vowel rhyme only, as in Old French and in Spanish, is not in itself objectionable, though it is questionably suited to English. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The rhyming is a little uneven, and in one case assonance is made to answer for true rhyme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 His own language was Hungarian, that tongue of tender and royal assonances, but Zora had never heard it. Melomaniacs He hung upon the pounding assonances, and his heart thumped in accord, as if his present adventure had been that crowning one of the hero's. The Spanish Jade In real, that is, spontaneous minstrelsy, the fittest assonance, consonance, time, even rime, ... come of themselves with the imaginative thought.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He uses rhyme comparatively little, often substituting assonance in accordance with the peculiar traditions of Spanish prosody. Rosinante to the Road Again The substitution of exact rhyme for assonance in his lines would double the already immense merit of his work. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The study of Comparative Religion has led men everywhere to magnify the assonances, rather than the dissonances, of the Great World Faiths. India, Its Life and Thought It is hardly necessary to add that assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it is considered throughout. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Elsewhere verse bound together only by assonance is almost unknown in English poetry. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The English language will not carry the requisite amount of bombast; the assonances and the puns are generally incapable of reproduction. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Mr. Chenault is a poet of the first order so far as inspiration is concerned, but his work is frequently marred by irregularity of metre, and the use of assonance in place of rhyme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The laisse, bound in one by its identical assonance, might contain five lines or five hundred. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Not being able to preserve the assonance, I have dropped the greater part of his title. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore There is a surfeit of assonance--all, shore, shore, lord; heart, Arthur; ways, safe, pain. Milton Each is ten lines long, and while the first rhymes throughout, the second has only a very imperfect assonance. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Technically we must needs shudder at the apparent incurable use of "m-n" assonance. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The employment of rhyme in place of assonance, and of the alexandrine in place of the decasyllabic line, encouraged what may be called poetical padding. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Thus an irregular assonance jingles through the play. Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College From thence it passed into the Romance languages—Provençal, Italian, French—where it was for a time rivalled by assonance; and finally, under French influence after the Conquest, it made its way into England. The Principles of English Versification Generally the pages present the spectacle of an intensely irregular mosaic, or rather conglomerate, of small blocks of assonance or consonance put together on no discoverable system whatever. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) But the crowning splendour of impossible assonance is attained in the "Worlds-girls" atrocity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The study is interesting, with its talk of alliteration and transverse alliteration, antithesis, climax, and assonance. The Bibliotaph and Other People All these have something in common; the verse is ten syllables, the correspondences are assonances and not rhymes. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present His alliterations, his frequent assonances and rhymes, his chiming and ever-musical rhythms are wonderfully well reproduced. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The rhymes are good, with very rare lapses into assonance; one might suspect a pretty close adherence to a probably Provençal original, and perhaps not a very early date. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The new and more flexible school of speech and music in hymn and tune had perfected rhythmic beauty and brought in the winsome assonance of rhyme. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Then the love theme is told in two lines of eleven syllables each, agreeing by rhyme, assonance, or repetition with the first. Men and Women In this unrhymed poem, assonance is very carefully avoided. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence So, again, was Tennyson untiring in seeking to attain ultimate perfection of phrase, consciously employing every artifice of alliteration, assonance and rime. Inquiries and Opinions Those of VIII. are twelve-lined in eights, rhymed ab, ab, ab, ab, c, d, c, d; but it is observable that there is some assonance here instead of pure rhyme. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) In national literatures many a passage, poetry or prose, is heightened in effect by assonance, alliteration, a certain movement or rhythm of phrase. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar Hebrew poetry has in addition the effect of assonance and other effects which cannot perhaps be transferred; but its main effect, its effect of parallelism of thought and sentence, can. On The Art of Reading Not only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The stanza before us is in debide sc�ilte, where the two couplets of the stanza are not linked by any form of sound assonance. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints This verse was free from assonance and the banalities which it draws into operatic works, but it kept the rhythm and sonorous sound which is far removed from prose. Musical Memories Their vowels, and initial and final consonants were so varied within a single series as to eliminate phonetic aids, viz., alliteration, rhyme, and assonance. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Rags of rhymes, mere assonances, Now must serve. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 Brentano and others of the romantics went so far as to practise assonance in their original as well as translated work. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century It has a peculiar rhythm and assonance which seem to repel the notion of a mere translation from English, as something almost absurd. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Anything approaching assonance between the two divisions is to be counted as a defect. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson The kind of assonance avoided was identity of final sounded consonants in successive words, e.g., lane, vine. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A coarse and clumsy assonance seldom spread its snare in vain. Aspects of Literature Those who have carefully studied the harmonies of the 'Paradise Lost,' know how all-important are the assonances of the vowel sounds of o and a in its most musical passages. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The Choice, for instance, is a charming poem, and the sonnet on Evening would be almost perfect if it were not for an unpleasant assonance in the fifth line. Reviews It is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as assonance. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes The rule for the avoidance of alliteration, rhyme, and assonance was extended to the foreign symbols, and to the two terms of a couplet. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Those monosyllabic assonances are the discovery of genius. Aspects of Literature They were poems, by reason of their use of metaphor, alliteration, assonance, and imagination. Chapters on Jewish Literature The importance of voice and ear in receiving the due impression of literature is recognised; and the value of the child's own expression of its imaginations and its sense of rhythm and assonance is understood. Cambridge Essays on Education The style is Borrow's own, peculiar to him: eloquent, rugged, full of liturgical repetitions, shunning all soft assonances and refinements, and yet with remote sea-like cadences, and unhackneyed felicities that rejoice the jaded soul. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 It may be noted, for example, as a rather curious fact, that the ingenious rhymes are generally only mathematical triumphs, not triumphs of any kind of assonance. Robert Browning The difficulties he has overcome are very great, consisting not merely of intricate rhyme and assonance, which he has faithfully reproduced, but a text often corrupt and meaning often obscure. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance. Chapters on Jewish Literature That Mrs. Browning's ear was quite-capable of discerning true rhymes is shown by the fact that she tacitly abandoned her experiment in assonances. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Delicate, haunting rhymes alternate with crude assonances, and occasionally one meets with banalities; but, as a whole, the collection is of surprising merit. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English The lines are all seven syllables in length, save the final half-lines, and the assonance, which all but the half-lines observe, tends somewhat towards rhyme. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 To rest the listener's ear, while he waited for the answering rimes, Arnaut used light assonances which almost amount to rime in some cases. The Troubadours Rhyme is unknown in the Bible, but the assonances which occur may easily run into rhymes. Chapters on Jewish Literature His hymn to Christ is not only full of assonance, but of all kinds of rhyme and even double rhymes. A Mere Accident Mr. White tells us that on and one were pronounced alike, because Speed puns upon their assonance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 He talks of assonance and color, of stress and pause and accent, and bewilders me with his theories. Ballads of a Bohemian This descendant of the Vikings had been born in times of peace, and his sole occupation was to endeavour to form harmonious phrases by avoiding assonances. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings The assonance of the original might perhaps be partly reproduced by rendering 'evil-minded as you are, it was yet a very simple-minded idea that your mind conceived', &c. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 We are on the very verge of the accentual Latin poetry of the Middle Ages, and the affinity is made closer by the free use of initial and terminal assonances, and even of occasional rhyme. Latin Literature It will burrow through the latest of his works and exhume his half-buried experiments in rhyme, assonance and polyphony. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes This ornamented prose, elaborated by Greek and Roman rhetoricians, and constantly apparent in the pages of Cicero, heightened its rhythm by various devices of alliteration, assonance, tone-color, cadence, phrase and period. A Study of Poetry Rhyme is substituted for assonance; the process entails frequent modernisations, and yet the basis of thirteenth-century texts continues to be the version of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age Alliteration and assonance are the natural ornaments of poetry in a rude age. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius He delighted unduly in alliteration, assonance, and rhyming effects, all which he sometimes carried to excess. Poets of the South The style of the passage is nearly as peculiar as its thought, it abounds in assonance and alliteration. Introduction to the Old Testament Not content with merely giving a faithful interpretation of his author's meaning, he laid down and strictly observed the law of adhering rigorously to all the measures, rhythms, and assonances of the original. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The poem that, in the oldest MS., is written in assonances, in later MSS. is reduced to regular rhymes and is retouched in many essential respects. Homer and His Age The old- fashioned ornaments of assonance, alliteration, and plays upon words are as frequent in Accius as in Livius, or rather more so; and the number of archaic forms is scarcely smaller. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius He constantly uses alliteration, assonance, repetition, and refrain. Poets of the South Repetitions, assonances, do not always shock Maupassant, who is sometimes insensible to quantity as he is to harmony. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories In the French originals of these romances the lines were a definite length, the meter exact, and rimes and assonances were both used to give melody. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World First there were the figurae verborum, or figures of language, which sought agreeable sounds alone or in combination, such as antitheses, rhymes, and assonances. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism His alliteration and assonance have been noticed in a former appendix. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius But the melody of the verse never fails; equality of time is observed, along with a rich use of alliteration and assonance. Poets of the South Like most of his poems, it is marked by artistic finish and grace, and many of the lines have a natural beauty of unsought alliteration and assonance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 And hence literature is no longer merely a thing of vocabulary, of phrase, of rhythm, of assonance, of alliteration, or of metrical and philosophical form. The Warriors In this example, the two last syllables have the assonance; although this is not invariable, it sometimes falling on the antepenultima and the final syllable. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 Of the dreamy fascination which Love exercises over a listening ear I have already spoken; and there is hardly less charm in the measure and assonances of the Circassian Love Chant. English Men of Letters: Coleridge The existence of speech melody and the tonalities of rime, assonance, and alliteration suggest an analogy between verse and music. The Principles of Aesthetics In the first quatrain “spoken” does not rhyme with “open”; Butler knew this and would not alter it because there are similar assonances in Shakespeare, e.g. “open” and “broken” in Sonnet LXI. xiii. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler You think," he cries in half-sportive pique, "that because I pass my life trying to make harmonious phrases, in avoiding assonances, that I too have not my little judgments on the things of this world? The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters The assonances are beyond recovering; the "laisse" or leash of verses or assonances with the concluding cry, "Aoi," has long ago vanished from verse or song. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres The union of jarring consonants being rare, and the assonances easily multiplied, the same comparison might be employed to the ensemble of the effect produced by these idioms upon foreigners. Life of Chopin This is true even when we abstract from rhythm, which we shall neglect for the time being, and think only of euphony, alliteration, assonance, and rime. The Principles of Aesthetics The assonance mostly attempts monorhyme: in two tetrastichs it is aa + ba, and it does not disdain alternates, ab + ab + ab. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 You think that because I pass my life trying to make harmonious phrases, in avoiding assonances, that I too have not my little judgments on the things of this world? The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 He renders poetry by prose and apologises for not omitting it altogether: he neglects assonance and he is at once too Oriental and not Oriental enough. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 Through an analogy, based not so much upon the significance of the words as upon a sort of assonance, Spain, France, and Britain in rabbinical literature received the Hebrew names of Sefarad, Zarfat, and Rifat. Rashi The Vorwort wants development, the notes, confined to a few words, are inadequate and verse is everywhere rendered by prose, the Saj'a or assonance being wholly ignored. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 The verse, which was chanted, is not rhymed as a rule, but each laisse, or screed, as in the “Chanson de Roland,” runs on the same final assonance, or vowel sound throughout. Letters on Literature Alliteration, assonance, compound words, personifications, are greatly overused. A Biography of Sidney Lanier But he could appreciate the charm of the Cynghanedd, the alliterative assonance which is still the most distinctive feature of Welsh poetry. The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales Thus universally used the assonance has necessarily been abused, and its excess has given rise to the saying "Al-Saj's faj'a"—prose rhyme's a pest. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 |
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