Consonance (verse doctrine)
In linguistics, consonance is the consonance of the consonants preceding the vowel core ( syllable head ) or the following consonants ( syllable coda ). In verse theory, the consonance is a form of the half-rhyme in which, in contrast to other rhyme forms, the stressed vowel does not remain the same (as in Rat - Tat ), but the consonants correspond to each other aloud ( Rat - red ). The vowel quantity is retained. Sometimes the consonance is also referred to as a parareim .
Especially in English poetry of the late 19th century , consonance occasionally took the place of rhyme, for example in Percy Bysshe Shelley ( Ode to the West Wind ), William Butler Yeats and Emily Dickinson . The following example is from Wilfred Owen :
"It seemed that out of the battle I esc a ped / Down some profound dull tunnel, long since sc oo ped / Through granites which Titanic wars had gr oi ned / Yet also there encumbered sleepers gr oa ned"
In French poetry, the phonetic correspondence in the syllable coda is called contre-assonance .
See also: Assonance (verse doctrine)
literature
- Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 , p. 369.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 430.