ETYM Cf. French assonance. Related to Assonant.
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words; SYN. vowel rhyme.
Similarity between sounds; kind of rhyme in which only vowels are identical.
The matching of vowel (or, sometimes, consonant) sounds in a line, generally in poetry. “Load” and “moat”, “farther” and “harder” are examples of assonance, since they match in vowel sounds and syllabic stress pattern, but do not rhyme.