Asonant Rhyme Example

It is known as assonance rhyme to the type of rhyme in which the correspondence of sounds or phonemes occurs only between the vowels. The assonance rhyme is taken into account from the last stressed vowel of a word or verse; that is, of the vowel that has a stronger accent within a word. For example, words like: "grotto, help, endure, consume, doubt, abrupt" rhyme in assonance, since from the tonic vowel (in this case the "u") share the vowel sounds "u" and "a" despite the fact that the consonants vary in each of the words.

Regarding the sound effect, this type of rhyme is more subtle than the consonant rhyme (in which there is a correspondence between vowel and consonant sounds). Because not all sounds are equalThis type of rhyme is also called imperfect rhyme.

In general, this classification of rhyme is used for the most part in poetry. However, assonance rhyme is not used exclusively in poetry. Like all types of rhyme, it can also be used in song lyrics, in phrases of everyday life, such as sayings and sayings, in speeches, in advertising slogans, etc. For example, in the saying "think wrong and you will get it right" the words

wrong Y you will hit rhyme in assonance from the tonic “a”.

To identify an assonance rhyme it is important to know how it is constructed. Not all vowel sounds may be repeated as there are two exceptions:

1. In assonance rhymes can be omittedthe weak vowels of diphthongs, that is, "i" and "u". For example: "mind" can rhyme in assonance with "twenty".
2. In assonance rhymes the internal vowels of the esdrújulas words are not taken into account; that is, it is enough with the initial and final vowels of the word from the stressed vowel. For example: "typical" can rhyme in assonance with "myth" if the middle "i" is deleted.

Types of assonance rhyme according to their distribution:

In a poem the rhymes are distributed in a certain way creating certain sound repetitions according to the intention of the poet. Thus, we have the following classifications:

to. Assonance monorrima. In this rhyme all the verses rhyme in the same way. Example:

There they think of prodding, there they release the riandndtos. (TO)
On the way out of Bivar they heard the crow diandstrto (TO)
and entering Burgos, they saw her siniandstrto. (TO)
Cid rocked my shoulders and engraved the youandstto. (TO)
"Albricia, Alvar Fáñez, we are down from youandrrto, (TO)
more to grand ondra, we will return to Castiandllto", (TO)
Song of Mine Cid

b. Assonance paired rhyme. In this type of rhyme the verses rhyme in pairs. Example:

I will die in Paris with aguacandror, (TO)
one day of which I already have the recuandrdor. (TO)
I will die in Paris - and I will not corrror, (B)
maybe on a Thursday, as it is today, from otorñor. (B)
Cesar Vallejo

c. Assonance alternating rhyme. In this type of rhyme, the verses that rhyme in the same way alternate. Example:

I can write the saddest verses tonight.
To think that I do not have her. Feel that I have lost heridor. (TO)
Hear the inmense night, even more without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like the roc to grassio. (TO)
Does it matter that my love could not keep it.

The night is starry and she is not with meigor. (TO)
Pablo Neruda

d. Assonance hugging rhyme. The first verse rhymes with the last and the second with the third. Examples:

The blue nighttodto (TO)
began his ritor (B)
of silences frios (B)
and voices ptordtos. (TO) 

20 Examples of assonance rhyme

1. "My gentleman" by José Martí

In the morningtontos 
My little oneandlor
I woke uptobto
With a big bandsor.
Put to horcajtodtos
About me pandchor,
Forging flangestobto
With my cabandllors.
Drunk he of gorzor,
Of joy I andbrior,
Spurred me ontobto
My horseandror:
What soft foamtheto
The two feet of her frandscors!
Like reía 
My jinetuandlor!
And i kisstobto
Her feet pequandñors,
Two feet that fit 
In just abandsor!

2. "The ecstatic eyes" by Miriam Elim

In the sweetness of waiting, I have stayedtodor 
ecstatic eyestotwo.
Another sun and another moon have to comeir 
and they will find me like thisí:
Take your hands away, before flowers of ruandgor
shaded the pupils of mistandrior...
Another sun and another moon have to turntor
without my yearning getting tiredtor
In the sweetness of waiting, I have stayedtodor 
ecstatic eyestodors.

3. Fragment of "Raise the flower her dream" by José Gorostiza

The tenacity of the blood 
go from rorjor;
the dream is indigo;
the bliss, of orror.
She has fierce love 
greyhounds mortodors;
but also her harvest,
also their pájarors.

 4. Fragment of "The gypsy nun" by Federico García Lorca

Silence of lime and myrtle.
Mallow in the herbs fintos.
The nun embroiders wallflowers 
on a cloth pajizto.
They fly on the gray spider,
seven birds of the priYeto.
The church growls in the distance 
like a bear belly arribto

5. Fragment "Elogio de la sombra" by Jorge Luis Borges

The man and his tolmto.
I live between luminous forms and vtogtos
that are not yet darkness.
good ones TOto goands,
that before was torn in arrabtolands
towards the unceasing plain

 6. Fragment of "I liked that you cried" by Jaime Sabines

 What soft eyes 
about your ftoldto!
I do not know. But you had 
from everywhere, ltorgtos
women, black togutos.
I wanted to tell you: hermtonto.
To incest with you 
roses and lágrimtos.
It hurts a lot, it's true,
all that was raisedtonzto.
It's true, it hurts 
not have ntodto.
How beautiful you are, sadness:
when so ctolltos!
Take him out with a kiss 
all lágrimtos!
That the time, ah,
I would do this to youtoyouto!

7. "Three joyful mysteries" by Luis Cernuda

The singing of the birds, at dawn,
when the weather is warmer,
happy to live, I already slippedizto 
between sleep, and joy 
infects whoever wakes up to the new día.
Cheerful smiling at her toy 
poor and broken, at the door 
Only the child plays in the houseitor
with it, and in blissful 
ignorance, enjoy being vivor.
The poet, on paper dreaming 
his unfinished poem,
It seems beautiful, enjoy and piandnsto
with reason and madness 
that nothing matters: there is its poandmto.

8. "Luceros" by Julio Flores Roa

They say that poets
they turn into tostrors
when cold death
comes to turn off his melodious ctontors.
How many nights, looking at the stars,
alone I exclaimedtodor:
Oh! if it's true, if it's true what they say
Which of those stars will be BYrorn? (The sound of the “y” here is equivalent in Spanish to the sound of the diphthong “ai”, which rhymes in assonance with the “a” of exclaimed).

 9. "Loca" by Jaime Gil de Biedma

The night, which is always ambiguto,

it infuriates you-colorr
bad gin, sorn
your eyes bichtos.
I know that it will breakandr

in insults and in himágrimtos
hysterical. In the Ctomto,
then calm you downé
with kisses that he gives meandnto
give them to you. And to the bedroomir
will you press against meí
like a sick bitchandrmto.

10 “Eternal love” by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

The sun may cloud forever;
The mtor;
The axis of the earth may be broken 
Like a weak cristtol.
Everything will happen! May death 
Cover me with his funereal crespón;
But it can never be turned off in me 
The flame of your loveorr.

11. Fragment of "Rima XXV" by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

When at night they surround you 
the tulle wings of herandñor
and your long lashes 
resemble arches of ébanor,
for listening to the heartbeat 
of your heart inquiredandtor
and recline your asleep 
head on my pandchor,
give, my soul,
how much you have:
The light, the air 
and the thoughtandntor!
When your eyes are nailed 
in an invisible objandtor
and your lips illuminate 
of a smile the reflandjor,
for reading on your forehead 
the quiet thoughtandntor
what happens like the cloud 
of the sea over the wide espandjor,
give, my soul,
how much do you giveeo:
The fame, the gold,
the glory, the gandneitheror!

12.Fragment of "Sea in the afternoon" by Octavio Paz

High water walls, towers tolttos,
suddenly black waters against ntodto,
impenetrable, green, gray togutos,
suddenly white waters, dazzletodtos. (…)

The resounding tiger of the togutos,
the ringing nails of a hundred tigers,
the hundred hands of the water, the hundred tigers 
one-handed against ntodto.

13. "On my shoulder" by José Martí

See: sitting down I carry it 
About me hormbror:
Hidden goes, and visible 
For myorlor!
He girdles my temples 
With your networkorndor
Arm, when to the beasts 
Sorrows me porstror:?
When the shaggy hair 
Stand up and horscor,
Which of internal storm 
Symbol torrvor,
Like a kiss that flies 
I feel in the torscor
Skull: his hand tame 
The bridle lorcor!?
When in the middle of the strong 
Gloomy road,
I smile, and passed out 
Of the rare gorzor,
I reach out for 
From friend to aporYor,?
Is that an invisible kiss 
Give me the hermorsor
Sitting child 
About me hormbror.

 14. "Confession" by Elías Nandino

The poem íntimor,
the one who did not writeibor:
only
I cohabit with itigor.

15. "I live and I turn away" by Elías Nandino

Longevity malditto!
Why if i am cenizto
my brain is in brtomto
and my lust spreads
to the withered areas
of my annihilated fleshtodto?
Damn longevity!
hel flaretodto,
tantalic underworld
of lust lags behindtodto.
All beauty humtonto
I still awake the waittonzto
of joytorlto
and I live and I deviate
ejaculating,
only orgasms from lágrimtos.

16. Fragment of "Balada de un día de julio" by Federico García Lorca

Silver shells 
They lead the oxen.
Where are you going, my girl,
Of sun and snow?
I go to the daisies 
From the green meadow.
The meadow is far away 
And he is afraid.
In the air and in the shade 
My love is not afraid.
Fear the sun, my child,
Of sun and snow.
She left my hair 
Now forever.
Who are you, white girl.
Where you come from?
I come from loves 
And from the sources.
Silver shells 
They lead the oxen.
What do you have in your mouth 
What turns you on?
My lover's star 
That lives and dies.
What are you wearing on your chest 
So fine and light?
My lover's sword 
That lives and dies.
What do you have in your eyes
Black and solemn?
My sad thought 
That always hurts.

17. “Song of the horseman” by Federico García Lorca

On the black moon 
of the bandits,
the spurs sing.
Black horse.
Where are you taking your dead rider?
... The hard spurs 
of the immobile bandit 
that he lost the reins.
Cold horse.
What knife flower perfume!
In the black moon
the side was bleeding 
from Sierra Morena.

Black horse.
Where are you taking your dead rider?
The night spurs 
his black flanks 
nailing stars.
Cold horse.
What knife flower perfume!
In the black moon
A shout! and the horn 
over the bonfire.
Black horse.
Where are you taking your dead rider?

18. "La poesía" by José Ángel Valente

She left in the wind
she came back in the toto goand.
I opened it in my house
the door grtondand.
She was gone in the wind.
I was anheltontand.
She left in the wind
she came back in the toto goand.
She took me where
there was no ntodie.
She left in the wind
it stayed in my stongrand.
Came back in the toto goand.

19. Fragment of "The crime" by José Ángel Valente

Today I woke upidor
as always, but
with a knifeillor
on the chest. Ignore
who sidor,
and also the possible
mobile delitor.
I'm here
tendidor
and vertical weight
the frio.
The news spreads
with relative sigilor.
The doctor was brilliant, but
the interrogation has sidor
confused. The fact
lacks testigors.
(Porter call,
dijor
that the dead did not have
background políticors.
It's an obsession that haunts her
since the death of the seaidor.)

20. "The water mirror" by Vicente Huidobro

My mirror, current through the norchandyes,
It becomes a stream and moves away from my cutortor.
My mirror, deeper than him orrband
Where all the swans drownedtororn.
It is a green pond in the murtollto
And in the middle your anchor nakedness sleepstodto.
Above its waves, under skies areámbulors,
My dreams drift away like btorcors.
Standing at the stern you will always see me canttondor.
A secret rose swells in my pandchor
And a drunken nightingale flutters in my danddor.