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| par-o-moy-o'-sis | from Gk. para, "beside" and
homoiosis, "likeness" Also sp. paromoeosis assonance |
Parallelism of sound between the words of adjacent clauses
whose lengths are equal or approximate to one another. The combination
of isocolon and assonance.
Example
In the following couplet, each line is of equal length (iambic pentameter), and the parallel assonance has been highlighted:
In granite tombs, on walls of silent stone,
With frantic runes, where falls the sharpened bone...
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