'Red Edged Spread' IS an example of assonance, although your typical examples tend to be constructed through a whole section, or stanza, of a certain work. In Paradise Lost, the author uses assonance in a different way, by using 'u' and 'oo' sounds frequently. If you read it slowly, it evokes a certain feeling in the reader's mind:
"...Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb
Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views
At ev'ning from the top of Fesole . . ."
I suppose the point I am trying to make is...that feeling is the key factor in using assonance in poetry, and it will take more than three words to do that. BUT, red edged spread IS a simple form of assonance.
An example of assonance in the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll is: "And the mome raths outgrabe." The repetition of the long "o" sound in the words "mome" and "outgrabe" creates an assonance, adding to the whimsical and nonsensical tone of the poem.
An example of assonance in the poem "Who Goes with Fergus" by W.B. Yeats is "green and blue and grey." The repetition of the long "e" sound in these words creates a musical quality and enhances the poem's rhythmic flow.
One example of an assonance poem about sports is "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. This poem uses the repetition of vowel sounds, particularly the long "a" sound, to create a musical and rhythmic quality. The poem tells the story of a baseball player named Casey who strikes out in a crucial moment, showcasing the highs and lows of sports competition. The use of assonance enhances the poem's emotional impact and highlights the tension and drama of the game.
Yes, assonance can be found in many of Robert Frost's poems. For example, in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Frost uses assonance in the repeated "o" sound in the lines "Whose woods these are I think I know" and "To watch his woods fill up with snow." This creates a musical and rhythmic effect in the poem.
Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds, and is related to rhyming. As such, the rhyming in Incident by Countee Cullen does include assonance.
The literary term for repitition of vowel sounds is assonance.
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...by Robert Hayden, a U.S.A poet. You can squirm around it to find assonance but, as this is a non-rhyming poem, it is disingenuous to say that 'ached' and 'made' in the first stanza are examples of assonance, or 'dress' and 'house' in the second, or 'cold' and 'know' in the third. But these are the only vaguely assonant lines and they appear different points in those stanzas. So whoever told you that this was a piece of work with good examples was talking through their assonance.
The assonance in the "Seven Ages of Man" poem by William Shakespeare can be found in lines such as "the mewling and puking" and "the last scene of all." Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
Assonance in "The Highwayman" refers to the repetition of vowel sounds within words in the poem. For example, in the line "The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees," the repetition of the short "i" sound in "wind," "was," "torrent," and "darkness" creates assonance. This literary device helps create a musical and rhythmic quality in the poem, enhancing its overall impact on the reader.
In the poem "Dad" by Elaine Feinstein, assonance can be found in this quote, "staggering back up the path with sacks." Assonance is a literary device in which a vowel sound is repeated in many words of the same phrase.
The poem "How Do I Love Thee?" uses assonance, which is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. This helps create a musical and lyrical quality in the poem.