Lyrical assonance with jazz and cats

Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose.

Consonance: The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

In this annotated page, assonance and consonance are not color coded or annotated. It would be too messy to include all the literary devices in single space.

But still be aware that there are overwhelming quantities of assonance and consonance that all add up to the rich auditory experience of the poem.

Source: Literary Device

• https://literarydevices.net/assonance/
• http://literarydevices.net/consonance/

Assonance, internal rhyme, insistingly negative.

Césaire emploie une assonance en [e] dans cet extrait. Il parle encore de la Martinique. En utilisant le champ lexique de la nature et de l’enfer.

This is an example of assonance used to exemplify her awareness of the silence around her.

Assonance of "leave these". Purpose? A lyric aid to memory. I think you will find an attention to detail in this sonnet of Still's that is all about helping the reader to memorize the poem. I used to have eighth graders memorize this poem in an 80 minute block. Not possible without the careful attention to lyric rhetoric here. The assonance, repetition, rhyme, alliteration, and all the other lyric tools reside in this eminently memorizable poem.