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Definition of Assonate
1. Verb. Correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance. "The accented vowels assonated in this poem"
Definition of Assonate
1. v. i. To correspond in sound.
Definition of Assonate
1. Verb. To correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assonate
1. to match in a vowel sound [v ASSONATED, ASSONATING, ASSONATES]
Literary usage of Assonate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"... the final words of lines 2 and 4 must assonate.1 In every six-lined ...
In every eight-lined stansa the final words of lines 3, 6 and 8 must assonate? ..."
2. The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee: Félire Óengusso Céli Dé by Whitley Stokes (1905)
"The end-words of the second and fourth lines me assonate, ... Final -e in the
first and third lines may assonate wi final of in the second and fourth lines, ..."
3. A Spanish Anthology: A Collection of Lyrics From The Thirteenth Century Down by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1917)
"(2) words accented on the last syllable (agudos) cannot assonate with those
accented on the penult (graves), on the antepenult ..."
4. Modern Spanish Lyrics by Elijah Clarence Hills, Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1913)
"(e) In final unstressed syllables, i and « (not in diphthongs) assonate with e
and o, respectively, as in verde, débil (é-e), amante, fácil (á-e), líquido, ..."
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