In the first line, for starters: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," The long "e" sound in dreary, weak, weary. Perfect rhymes are assonant by nature, since they employ the same vowel sounds. read more
Assonance occurs in the poem ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allen Poe in several lines, including"while I pondered weak and weary." Assonance is the repetition of vowels (a, e, I, o, u and sometimes y) in poems; in the passage cited, the repetition of the vowels"ea" in the words"weak" and"weary" is assonance. read more
Another example of assonance occurs in the first stanza, when the narrator says,"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" (3-4). read more