Assonance is a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar sounding vowels in neighbouring words whose consonants are different.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- Girl with a Pearl Earring.
- Here at the small field’s ending pause.
Assonance used in the poem "Dust of Snow":
- The way a crow
- Shook down on me
- The dust of snow
- A change of mood
- And saved some part
- Of a day I had rued
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