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• Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sounds, usually within words. It is different from rhyme because it does not need to be at the end of each line of poetry.
Annabel Lee example:
It was many and many a year ago....
The Raven example:
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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• Internal rhyme is a rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse. There are three types of internal rhymes:
• Two or more rhyming words occur within the same line.
• Two or more rhyming words will appear in the middle of two separate lines or
sometimes in more.
• A word at the end of a line rhymes with one or more in the middle of the following line.
Notice the words napping, rapping, and tapping that are spread out over three lines of the poem, “The Raven.”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
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