Assonant rhyme is a type of repetition used in poetry.
Assonant rhyme is a type of repetition used in poetry . It is necessary to analyze the terms that form the concept to understand the expression.
The notion of rhyme refers to the reiteration of different sounds . This practice is a technique that is used in the poetic field. According to the way in which this repetition is established, it is possible to talk about different types of rhymes.
Generally, the repetition is specified from the stressed vowel that is in the last place, at the end of the verse. When the rhyme is formed, in two or more verses, by the coincidence of the stressed vowels of the different syllables after the last stressed vowel, it is called assonant rhyme . It is important to note that unstressed vowels in diphthongs are excluded.
Example of assonant rhyme
An example of assonant rhyme is the following:
The young people were noticing
that there was something strange in the pine
like a hidden color /
ready to fly away
As you can see, in the previous example the rhyme is produced from the repetition of the vowels AO and IO .
Assonant rhyme offers wide freedom to the author.
Other classifications
Due to its characteristics, assonant rhyme is also called imperfect rhyme or partial rhyme . If, after the aforementioned limit of the stressed vowel in the last place, the repetition reaches all the phonemes, the rhyme is called consonant or perfect rhyme.
It is possible to find assonant rhymes more frequently than consonant rhymes, since their construction is simpler and does not restrict the creative freedom of poets too much. The consonant rhyme, on the other hand, imposes greater restrictions when writing and developing the verses .
This freedom that characterizes assonant rhyme in contrast to consonant rhyme can also be seen in the fact that, at school, children usually first learn to construct assonant rhymes, since it imposes fewer limits on them and allows them to make use of their vocabulary. , instead of forcing them to learn new words just to find perfect matches between syllables.
Assonant rhyme and accentuation
A concept that is of great importance to construct a rhyme is accentuation. Firstly, our language cannot be conceived without the presence of accents , since all words with two or more syllables require that one of them have a greater intensity than the rest, and this characteristic can make the difference between two concepts that do not have the same meaning, especially between conjugations of the same verb; For example, if we take the words "turn off" and "turn off" , we see that they refer to different times and, perhaps, to different people ( "I turn off" or "he turns off" ).
Within accentuation, stressed syllables are distinguished from unstressed syllables (those that have a prosodic accent and those that do not; the former must be pronounced with greater intensity than the others). But, if the word is grave or esdrújula, that is, it is not stressed on the last syllable, then within the group of unstressed syllables there is always one that is found directly after the stressed one, and this is known as the syllable. postonic .
Other considerations
The assonant rhyme pays attention to the concept of the postonic syllable to provide even more flexibility when constructing verses with grave words, allowing the postonic "u" to be taken as an "o", and the postonic "i" to be instead of an "e." Taken to an example, we can say that the word "consul" is suitable for an assonant rhyme with "collection" , in the same way that "simile" can rhyme with "free" .
For esdrújulas words, the rules are different. In this case it is necessary to observe only the stressed vowel and that of the last syllable; For example, the term "lightning" rhymes with "car" in á-o (the "a" in the syllable "pa" is not taken into account).