The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are chose together to create rhyming is called assonance.
Example
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
Significance
Assonance is a poetic devices that can create rhyming which can add music, beat or rhythm into poems. Assonance also can affect the mood and tone of poems.
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