Konsonanz (Verslehre)
In consonance linguistics is the consonant (syllable head) or subsequent consonants (syllabic), which is preceded by the vowelic syllable nucleus. In the verse, the consonance is a form of the half - rhyme in which unlike other forms of rhyme, the accentuated vowel does not remain the same (as in the act of counsel), but the consonants correspond to each other loudly (Rat - red). The vowel quantity is retained. Sometimes the consonance is also called parareim.
Above all in the English poetry of the late 19th century consonance occasionally took the place of the rhyme, for example, with Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ode to the Westwind), William Butler Yeats and Emily Dickinson. The following example is from Wilfred Owen:
„It seemed that out of the battle I escaped / Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which Titanic wars had groined / Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned“
– Wilfred Owen: Strange MeetingIn French poetry, the phonetic concordance in the syllable koda is called contre-assonance.
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