Rhyme and Music
The echoing of consonants is called "consonance." In the opening lines of the poem, we can see the preponderance of "l" sounds. The "s" introduced in the...
Glossary Poetic Terms C
Double consonance has the effect of being a near rhyme. Seamus Heaney often uses consonance rather than full rhyme - see such poems as Follower or The...
Consonance Poem
Consonance Poem
