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Where is Assonance in Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

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Where is Assonance in Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

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This is a classic Shakespearean sonnet with fourteen lines in very regular iambic pentameter. With the exception of a couple relatively strong first syllables (and even these are debatable), there are basically no deviations from the meter. There aren’t even any lines that flow over into the next line – every single line is end-stopped.

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“Assonance” is just the repetition of vowel-sounds (rather than the repetition of consonant sounds, which is usually called “rhyme”) within prose or poetry. If you cannot find the repetition of vowel sounds in this sonnet, quit now and go take a chemistry class instead! LOL!

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