It reminds me of other words that have similar sounds inside them. Words that it shares an assonance with. Words like unique, sleek, and weep. Assonance is a bit like rhyme, but instead of having ...

It reminds me of other words that have similar sounds inside them. Words that it shares an assonance with. Words like unique, sleek and weep. Assonance is a bit like rhyme. But instead of having ...

Anyone can read a poem. Anyone can write a poem. Quite a few people can write a pretty decent poem with a little effort. And ...

His poetry soon took to itself not only Gaelic effects of alliteration and assonance, but Gaelic effects of rhythm: that "gapped music" so delicate that it seems to come from the rise and fall of ...

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Moreover, excluding any rhymes, assonance or rhythm. In Warkoczyk (Pigtail), his arguably most famous poem, built around a guided visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Former Nazi German Nazi Concentration ...

During that process, we kept the sound of word combinations uppermost in mind, as names must please the ear. To achieve this musicality, we relied on alliteration (repetition of words that begin with ...

They’re inspired by a grab bag of rap techniques, like Eminem’s approach to assonance, internal rhyme, and triplet flows, and mixtape culture’s “first thought, best thought” approach to ...