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the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain | — Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" |
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And murmuring of innumerable bees | — Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess VII.203 |
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Windows tinted on my ride when I drive in it, so when i rob a bank run out and just dive in it, so i'll be disguised in it. And if anybody identifies the guy in it, i hide for five minutes. Come back, shoot the eye witness. Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business. | — Eminem, Criminal |
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That solitude which suits abstruser musings | — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" |
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Known narcissists, sipping on arsenic, Carved carcasses in the garage, don't park in it, Hard as finding retarded kids at Harvard, It's Wolf Gang barking keep you up like car alarms and shit | — Earl Sweatshirt, from Tyler, The Creator's "AssMilk" |
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The crumbling thunder of seas | — Robert Louis Stevenson |
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I am that timeless nigga that swings on pendelums like vines
through mines of boobytrapped minds that are enslaved by time |
— Saul Williams |
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Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled the middleman who didn't do diddily." | — Big Pun, "Twinz" |
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Hes evil, and i'm bad like Steve Seagal. Above the law cause i don't agree with police either.. (Shit me neither) we aint eager to be legal. So please, leave, me, with the keys to your Jeep-Eagle. I breathe ether in three lethal amounts, while i stab myself in the knee with a diseased needle " | — Eminem, "Bad Meets Evil" |
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It's hot and it's monotonous. | — Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, It's Hot Up Here |
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tunditur unda | — Catullus 11 |
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on a proud round cloud in white high night | — E.E. Cummings, if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit |
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I've never seen so many Dominican women with cinnamon tans | — Will Smith, "Miami" |
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I bomb atomically—Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries. | — Inspectah Deck, from the Wu-Tang Clan's "Triumph." |
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Up in the arroyo a rare owl's nest I did spy, so I loaded up my shotgun and watched owl feathers fly | — Jon Wayne, Texas Assonance |
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Some kids who played games about Narnia got gradually balmier and balmier | — C.S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
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And the moon rose over an open field | — Paul Simon, America |
J. R. R. Tolkien's Errantry is a poem whose meter contains three sets of trisyllabic assonances in every set of four lines.
Assonance can also be used in forming proverbs, often a form of short poetry. In the Oromo language of Ethiopia, note the use of a single vowel throughout the following proverb, an extreme form of assonance:
- kan mana baala, aʔlaa gaala (“A leaf at home, but a camel elsewhere"; somebody who has a big reputation among those who do not know him well.)
In more modern verse, stressed assonance is frequently used as a rhythmic device in modern rap. An example is Public Enemy's 'Don't Believe The Hype': "Their pens and pads I snatch 'cause I've had it / I'm not an addict, fiending for static / I see their tape recorder and I grab it / No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit".
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