Goethe's Die Geschwister treats of the passion of brother for sister.
When, however, the connection between literature and life is thus emphasised, the delineations and interpretations of men and their books by no means produce what we may call drawing-room history of literature.
The occurrence of this pair of assonances is quite enough to settle the question.
Besides which, there are two mereassonances in two consecutive stanzas, viz.
Yet perhaps this De imitatione Christi of Thomas a Kempis can scarcely be classed as prose, so full is it of assonances and rhythms fit for chanting.
It is filled withassonances and rude rhymes, usually of one syllable.
Likewise the inevitable progress of Latin verse had developed assonancesinto rhymes; and indeed into rhymes of two syllables, for Latin words lend themselves as readily to rhymes of two syllables as English words to rhymes of one.
A series of assonances is offensive in verses having consonantal rhyme, as that in e--o in these four verses of Garcilaso: El más seguro tema con recelo Perder lo que estuviere poseyendo.
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.
The words in question are assonances in the limited sense of the term; and because the identity lies in the vowels, they may be named vowel assonances.
The words in question are assonances in the limited sense of the term, and consonantal assonances.
Vowel assonances are recognized in (amongst others) the Spanish and Scandinavian metrical systems.
In this case only the stressed and the final vowels of the esdrújula are counted; for example, América assonances with crea.
When diphthongs enter into assonance, the weak vowel is ignored: pleita assonances with pliega.
In themselves, unsatisfactory as they may seem at first sight to our prejudices, there can be no doubt but that the assonances contained a musical principle, and would soon give pleasure to and be required by the ear.
I do not refer here to the interlaced feminine rhymes, alliterations, assonances within the line itself, of which none has made use more frequently or more successfully than he.
The use of assonances in place of reasoning is entirely peculiar to the insane, as also the use of special words, or words used in a peculiar sense, and the exaggerated importance attributed to the most trifling things.
Not only in the Brut, but also in several Old English and earlier Middle English poems, we meet both with regular rhymes and with simple assonances and other still more imperfect correspondences in sound intended to serve as rhymes.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assonances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
