What is "assonances"

Usage examples of "assonances".

It is for one thing in a metre I invented (depending on trisyllabic assonances or near-assonances, which is so difficult that except in this one example I have never been able to use it again – it just blew out in a single impulse).

The song had words, but the multitude of voices drowned out the meaning in a million blended assonances.

Or where this is broken, as in ym/in, we have recognition of the fact that m/n, though technically made at different contact points, have in their nasality and resonance a similarity which overrides the more mechanical distinction - a fact which is reflected, shall we say, both in the case of m/n interchange in real languages (such as Greek), or in my inability to feel greatly wounded by m/n assonances in a rhyming poem.

Well, even as there are rhymes for the eye, so you will find that there are assonances and alliterations.