Assonant Poems | Examples


Premium Member The Mark of Twain

There's more than just twelve feet of twain 
between total happiness and emotional pain
It's unfathomable, for they shall never meet
The distance is similarly much the very same
as is substantial derision 'tween cold and heat
There is much disparity amidst goat and sheep, 
although they both have four legs and bleat

Assonant as the depth of a trenched abyss
the golden rays of sun; beams of silver moon
while one is wide awake, the other is asleep
Half a world away is midnight from high noon
The chasm is a wormhole, millenniums deep
It's a contrast amid abundance and emptiness
Never the twain to coincide. There's no egress

Woes of sorrow to the one who tries to compensate
for the lack of love that causes him to drown in hate

You and I

You and I 
our words drowned
in the electron breeze
an assonant wave….

THEN a piercing chem-trail-wail
cutting through the bedlam

eloquent drum steps
silver trumpet cadence
marionette nerves strummed

THEN OUT OF THE BLUE, the golden star-shot glare of the saxophone 
Now taking giddy flight.

Your eyes--- in the nectar pandemonium

Your smile---- two strokes of genius in a kaleidoscope of rain
---myriad silver clarion confetti

take us
You and I
at lazt
jazz flazz
cosmic colours
jazz flazz

You and I

Premium Member The Sad Past

Little did I know
Our mistletoe kiss that night
By the Christmas tree
Would be the last kiss we shared
And then you left forever


*My first attempt at an assonant poem. 
Those familiar with assonance please comment and let me know how I did.*


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