What word is used to describe the repetition of vowel sounds in words?
Ode to a Nightingale and "short" vowel pairings until they end with a "long" vowel. These are not the only combination patterns present, and there are patterns of two "short" vowels followed by a "long" vowel in other lines, including 12, 22, and 59, which are repeated twice and then followed up with two sets of "short" and then "long" vowel pairs. This reliance on vowel sounds is not unique to this ode, but is common to Keats's other 1819 odes and his "Eve of St. Agnes". The poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance—the repetition of vowel sounds—in a conscious pattern, as found
Vowel Vowel A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). They are usually voiced, and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. Vowel sounds are produced with an open vocal tract. The word "vowel" comes from the Latin word "vocalis", meaning "vocal" (i.e. relating to the voice). In English, the word "vowel" is commonly used to refer both to vowel sounds and to the written symbols that represent them. There are two complementary definitions of vowel,