Consonance occurs when different vowels appear that are surrounded by the identical pattern of consonant sounds. Do not confuse it with slant rhyme. It is occasionally used as a way of rhyming, most notably by Wilfred Owen, but also by Emily Dickinson (occasionally) and Seamus Heaney. Heaney calls it "para-rhyme." Here is an example by Owen:

                              Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
                              I would have poured my spirit without stint
                              But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
                              Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.
                              I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
                              I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned
                              Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
                              I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.

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