assonant

Both are hyperdense, fluently assonant, working with car crashes of syllables and making them sound like regal skyscrapers.

The word “sigh,” when sprinkled into a poem or a song, has a lovely, almost assonant quality.

A little compare-and-contrast chart, inspired by the assonant names of the conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza and the classic march composer John Philip Sousa, appeared over the weekend in The New York Times Magazine.

It hires real journalists and does real reporting, and, when that happens, what viewers see cannot be entirely assonant with the wishes of its owners.

This brief combination of American hip-hop and Italian opera results in a strangely assonant, haunting intro.