Assonance is the repetition of identical or closely similar vowel sounds, either within a line of poetry or as a kind of rhyme at the end of the lines (see also vowel rhyme). An example are these two lines from Tennyson's "Tithonus":

Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine,
Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team

The lines are enriched in other ways as well, by alliteration and by terminal consonants that echo one another.
 

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