Literary usage of Assonants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1834)
"assonants are not, like rhymes, exhibited in insulated pairs, hut are continued
through the whole poem, or, in dramatic compositions, through an entire act ..."
2. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"So in English, hardy, manly, and carry would be assonants. ... assonants are
always used by the classical dramatists of Spain, but in the lyric ..."
3. A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1898)
"The assonants of the original songs are found preserved in the chronicles, and
no one with the most rudimentary idea of the conditions of Spanish ..."
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