A couplet will often rhyme, but is not ostracized for its failure to do so. He’s such an assonance.”Ĭouplet - a pair of lines, often comprising a complete stanza. Those who over-manipulate their sounds through this technique can be accused of being assonant, as in the complaint, “I hate reading that guy’s poems. This poetic technique can be used to create a more interesting sound, as well as a play on words or twist of thought as in Shakespeare’s cynical example above.Īlliteration - regular repetition of consonant sounds (usually the initial) which can result in a certain resonance or reverberation which, when run riot, can also result in resentment.Īssonance - repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,īut bears it out even to the edge of doom.Įnjambment - continuing a sentence or phrase past the line break. Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken The Shakespeare Files: annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare Text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116:
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