10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSONANTAL»
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assonantal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Elements and Science of English Versification
ASSONANTAL. Assonantal rhyme is the correspondence of the vowels at the end
of two lines. Such rhymes are not very frequent in our modern English verse.
Rhyme by what is termed similar sound, or allowable rhymes are considered ...
William Caswell Jones, 1897
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Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland
Within a verse, the final stressed rhyme is nearly always the same and often is
maintained throughout the poem. In the following example of a stanza of the
ochtfhoclach type written by John Philpot Curran, the different assonantal rhymes
are ...
Assonantal. compliments. II. There, I've got the photo of you When you were that
slightly loose Thing with, even then, dare-you-to Little drill-hole eyes And what
were then defiant Bee-stings, promoted now to proud breasts Beneath the long ...
Paul Verlaine, Martin Sorrell, 2009
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Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, ...
Assonantal. compliments. II. There, I've got the photo of you When you were that
slightly loose Thing with, even then, dare-you-to Little drill-hole eyes And what
were then defiant Bee-stings, promoted now to proud breasts Beneath the long ...
5
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions
Perhaps more importantly, Riquer claims to recognize in the Libre dels jets of
Jaime I and the chronicles of Desclot and Montaner passages of scarcely
disguised assonantal verse showing through the prosified text. Such
reconstructions are ...
Arthur Thomas Hatto, 1980
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Austin Clarke, 1896-1974: A Critical Introduction
The main examples of his assonantal poetry are found in the poems in 'The Land
of Two Mists' section of The Cattledrive in Connaught and in Pilgrimage, although
he experimented with assonance from the beginning. The 'Music Healers' ...
7
El Rey Don Pedro en Madrid Y El Infanzón de Illescas:
Arjona has been the chief student, once again in Lope, of the following "
imperfections" in romance meter: consonantal for assonantal rhyme (traza-plaza,
El cuerdo loco); assonantal for consonantal rhyme (copas-pocas, La desdichada
...
Carol Bingham Kirby, 1998
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Touch Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies for Reading ...
This is a difficult poem with many long, alliterative, and assonantal words, often
piled on top of each other. 'Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, vaulty,
voluminous, ... stupendous' - this first line not only establishes three assonantal
and ...
9
Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801–1924
The word Houlahan repeats as refrain throughout, and also takes half- and
assonantal rhymes with the triple rhymes, most subtly in the echo and repetition
of the ls first suggested in the word 'mild' through this stanza: Sweet and mild
would ...
10
Poetry in the Hebrew Bible: Selected Studies from Vetus ...
This half-verse offers a dazzling display of assonance, but formally we again
have a tension between the syntactic form (A B B' B") and the semantic and
assonantal form (A B B' A'). (1) Syntactically we have a verb in line 1 followed by
noun ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSONANTAL»
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assonantal is used in the context of the following news items.
Aurelia review: John Hawke recalls romance of dreams
... has this extended musicality, as seen here in the alliterative 'p's' of "pale /as powdered parchment" and the assonantal 'i's' of "witch's kiss". «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
As I walked with my friend,
Admittedly, Louis Simpson 's beautiful poem about Columbus, with its half-rhymes, para-rhymes and assonantal rhymes is on a higher plane of ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
Dan Maraya Jos (1946 – 2015)
A music celebrity, his better known name expressed a fitting assonantal musicality. Dan Maraya Jos, born Adamu Wayya in 1946, was renamed ... «The Nation Newspaper, Jun 15»
Poem of the week: from Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
In each stanzaic unit, all significant words (and few are not significant) make alliterative or assonantal relationships with others. The rhyming or ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women
Note in her brilliant assonantal rhyming of the girl speaker's final word, “Kandahar,” and the boy speaker's final words, “attendant's jar,” and her ... «Daily Beast, Apr 14»
Messy Continuum: An Interview With Matthew Welton
... often with some additional requirement or complication – alternative consonantal and assonantal rhymes, or the repeating of rhyming sounds ... «The Quietus, Dec 13»
Elements coalesce in a hard life
Assonantal and alliterative, and peppered with Scots and Doric vocabulary ("quinies" for girls, "loons" for boys), Meggie's voice is poetic and ... «The Australian, May 13»
Ice, By Gillian Clarke
Clarke has always had a sensitive feel for line-placement and assonantal rhyme: "knell" and "stall", linked by half-rhyme lament for both woman ... «The Independent, Dec 12»
Onion-Pilfering
The whole of Ondaatje's style is here: the assonantal awkwardness of 'the beautiful flutterers'; the broken back of the sentence halfway through, ... «London Review of Books, Dec 07»
