Inglise keele stilistika
Tenderly bury the fair young dead ...(La Costa)
Or: Forgive what seemed my sin in me. (Tennyson)
Normally, assonance does not appear alone: it is accompanied by other means of sound
orchestration, i.e alliteration, rhyme:
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells
What a world of merriment their melody foretells! (Poe)
Some scholars have attempted to relate vowel sounds to the meaning they convey. The
sound / I / , either alone or in dipthtongs, is said to produce the impression of lightness,
airiness, brightness.
The fields breathe sweet, the daisises kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit ... (T.Nashe)
The length of vowels is also relevant: long vowels tend to sound more peaceful or more
solemn than short ones, which tend to give an impression of quick movement, agitation or
triviality. The predominance of long vowels and diphtongs is said to render the sense of
slow pace or slowness, heaviness
annaabi.ee 
