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- verb Present participle of
assonate .
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Examples
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The fourteenth-century MS. Containing it is in a deplorably garbled condition, having folios missing here and there and showing lines of very uneven length as well as assonating rhymes frequently imperfect.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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[Footnote 43: Historically, of i6-syllable lines, all assonating.] (2) Alternate assonance may be employed with lines of any length.
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An _estribillo_, or refrain, may be used in any assonating verse (p. 45). page lxxxi
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[Footnote 1: The popular epics were written in assonating lines of variable length.
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