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assonance
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assonance: see rhyme rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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74, says of the Latin, "No modern prose can reproduce the original solemn parallelisms and assonances.
St Augustine by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
Given the light that Marian poetry sheds on Sceve's canzoniere, it seems quite possible that the name "Delie," this "surnom louable" (D59), was in fact itself chosen for reasons other than its onomastic properties or its assonances (Diana, Delos, Delie, "l'Idee," etc.
(Re)visiting Delie: Maurice Sceve and Marian Poetry [*] by DEFAUX, GERARD / Renaissance Quarterly
Although there are assonances between projects, there is clearly no one-solution-suits-all formula.
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