MUSICAL DEVICES
A syllable consists of a vowel sound that may be preceded or followed by consonant sounds. Any of these sounds may be repeated. The repetition of initial consonant sounds is alliteration.
tried and true safe and sound fish or fowl
rhyme or reason
The repetition of vowel sounds is assonance.
mad as a hatter time out of mind free and easy
slapdash
The repetition of final consonant sounds is consonance.
first and last odds and ends short and sweet
Rhyme is the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds. It is called masculine when the rhyme sounds involve only one syllable such as:
support and retort claims and flames
It is feminine when the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables such as:
motion and ocean willow and billow exciting and inviting
It is called internal rhyme when there are rhyming words within the single line; and end rhyme when the rhyming words are at the ends of lines.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping (from «The Raven» by Edgar Allen Poe)
Approximate rhymes (also called slant rhymes, imperfect rhymes, or half rhymes) can be defined as a rhyme in which only half of the word rhymes
shape and keep lightly and frightful
List the use of alliteration, assonance, consonance, half-rhyme, internal rhyme, and word repetition
Counting-Out Rhyme by Edna St. Vincent Millay Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow Twig of willow.
Stripe of green in moosewood maple, Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.
Wood of popple pale as moonbeam, Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam, Wood of hornbeam.
Silver bark of beech, and hollow Stem of elder, tall and yellow Twig of willow.
