in Rhetoric and Poetry, a term used where the words of a phrase or a verse have the same sound. Assay or termination, and yet make no proper rhyme. These are usually accounted vicious in English. Assonant Rhymes are common among the Spaniards; thus ligera, cubierta, tierra, mesa, answer each other in a kind of assonant rhyme, having each an e in the penult syllable, and an a in the last.