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Assonance and consonance both terms are associated with repetition- assonance is repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is repetition of consonant sound - but these terms ad they typically used differ in 3 important ways from pattering of rhyme . For example Jan likes to eat spam from can . Notice repetition of short vowel sound . For example Shakespeare his tender heir might bear his memory. Eh sound in tender , heir , bear memory assonance sound. Consonance is literally device that occurs when two words have same consonant sound following different vowel sounds. For example same and home have same and home have same m sound , but vowel sounds before are different. First long a and second long o . Example consonance hickory dickory dock . Another examples of poets hear mellow wedding bells by Edgar Allen Poe. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.
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A nice video on soundscape in poetry. An example of consonance and assonance: in The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock there is this short refrain: In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. Consonance: the m's sounds Assonance: the o's ounds Together they create a solemn sound, most of the already bit sober notes of the O dampened with the M, as if you hear pelgrims going to and fro in a church, mumbling. om om om. It fits both the devotation of the women and of course, of prufrock himself too. As for an example in a poem you already mentioned: dover beach There is in the first half a repeat of the uplifting sounds of ai. Fair, air are obvious due to the rhyme, but you also have straits and spray. Due to that word spray, I think those ai sounds make the reader think of the foam flinging upwards. You don't have those uplifting sounds in the second half of the poem anymore. It is all n-sounds. I think the beginning is in two halves here: first is the sea rising, second it falling again. This was fun! You gave me a new tool to analyze and make poems, thanks!
What a great way to start out the conversation, Pieter! Thanks so much! Here's another example from Prufrock: "the eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase." Here, the f-sounds repeat and the hard-u sound repeats in a memorable (and highly formulated) phrase. Thanks again for keeping the conversation going!
Ha! He's also pretty great at alliteration (a closely related term). Check out our video on that term if you are interested. Thanks for keeping the conversation going, wu fan!
It is indeed! You can find more information about alliteration in our "What is Alliteration?" video on our RU-vid page. Thanks for the question, Aurora!
Interesting question, Sasha. Could you give us the context of where these words occur in a sentence? And which repeating vowel sounds were you thinking here?
@@SWLF hello sir thankyou for the reply, the words appear in the poem called 'stick together familes' by Edgar Albert East the line from the poem is- The stick together families are happier by far
@@Sashaa22215 Got it. We'd say that you could certainly make the case for consonance (or even internal rhyme) in the repetition of -r sounds in together, happier, and far. What do you think?
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Actually, Prof Malewitz was going for Blanka more than Guile here, but the green screen effect we used makes that aesthetic difficult to spot. We'll try to correct it in future videos.