Sounds in Poetry

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Sounds in Poetry
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Assonance

• 1. Assonance The repetition of identical vowel
  sounds in different words.
• Example "swift Camilla skims"

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Alliteration

• 2. Alliteration The repetition of identical
  consonant sounds that begin syllables in close
  patterns
• Example "While pensive poets painful vigils
  keep"

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Sounds in Poetry

• 3. Onomatopoeia A blend of consonant and vowel
  sounds designed to imitate or suggest a situation
  or action. Example "buzz"
• 4. Euphony (good sound--smooth and flowing) and
  cacophony (bad sound--choppy and harsh).

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True or Exact Rhyme

• 5. Rhyme words containing identical final
  syllables
• Examples
• Weigh
• Grey
• Say
• Bouquet
• Fiancé

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Eye Rhyme

• a. Eye rhyme words that look alike but sound
  different. Examples
• Bough
• Cough
• Through
• Enough

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Slant Rhyme

• b. Slant rhyme Words that almost rhyme but don't
  exactly. Example "sun, noon
• Emily Dickinson uses a great deal of slant rhyme.

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Double rhymes

• c. Double rhymes (formerly called "feminine
  rhyme")
• Rhymes using words of two syllables in which the
  heavy stress falls on the first syllable. Also
  called trochaic rhymes. Examples SEAsons,
  REAsons
• HABit, RABbit

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Triple Rhyme

• d. Triple rhyme
• Rhymes using words of three or more syllables in
  which the heavy stress falls on any syllable
  other than the last. Also called dactylic rhymes.
• Example MaCAVity, GRAVity.
• WARily, MERRily