Meanings of assonant in English

The versification is careless; when rhyme hampered the poet he dropped it, and used instead the assonant rhyme.

Composer David Mansfield's assonant yet stirring score pulses with meaning, while music supervisor Tracy McKnight's sage selections bring resonance.

It is written in the assonant, or vowel rhyme, that was universal among European nations in the early stage of their civilization.

In various measures of alliterative and assonant verse they sing the praises of ninety of the fallen chiefs, usually giving one stanza to each hero.

Something of this charm is undoubtedly due to the beauty of the language they wrote in and to the free, airy grace of assonants.