In the radiant landscape panel Walking in the Vineyard, or Promenade (1899/1900, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)--originally intended as part of an unrealized decorative collaboration by several of the Nabis --Vuillard turned some dull orange, a range of olive-greens, and a pale lemon yellow into a throbbing, voluptuous expanse; he knitted together these
assonant hues with repeated hits of a neutral, mauve-tinged tan and "escapes" of apparently raw linen.
Read Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper extra slowly, savoring the sounds, from the inaugural title page with its
assonant vowels and repetitions of "I" and "s," to the acknowledgments at the end.
That's because Stanley's readers aren't spoiled by luxuriant phrasings, rhythmic cadences and rhyming or
assonant pleasantries.
Cassirer begins Language and Myth with a look at the recurrent notion that myth and mythical conceptions represent linguistic "mistakes," that myths such as the Greek belief in stones as the origin of human beings represent nothing more than the confusion of two names ("stones" and "men" in Greek) which are
assonant. Cassirer rejects this view, arguing that myth rests not upon a mental defect, but "upon a positive power of formulation and creation"(6).
The trees provide the rhyme ('tranquilles'), or rather assonance (/ki/), to soften (with its/1/) and disperse (with its feminine ending) the 'cris' of the first line; and the moment of fruitful and reassuring stillness reaches its zenith in the fourth line: a classic 'trimetre' (if we dare call it that), a doubled coupe enjambante, the alliterative or
assonant pairings in each measure ('la lumiere'; 'de dix'; 'en septembre'), the continuing presence of /[Epsilon]/.
24 For the alliterative and
assonant binome yanwan (both have [Chinese Text Omitted] initials) [Chinese Text Omitted], cf.
And his verse, like a spinning black record, is the only form of mutation accessible to him, a fact testified to above all by his
assonant rhymes.
Or in the ravishing density of alliterative and
assonant sound in the counting-house soliloquy, which enacts poetically both the dazzling concentration and wild proliferation of the Jew's wealth (see esp.
Notice also how he uses the alliterating d and
assonant i sounds of "dawn's desert light / blinding new" to slow and then suddenly increase the verbal speed of the passage.
The versification and
assonant rhyme of the poem is often faulty, though scholars have determined that those faults are due to errors and alterations made by the various copyists that intervened between the original and the earliest extant manuscript.
