Assonance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Resemblance of sound.

II. Assonance ·noun Incomplete correspondence.

III. Assonance ·noun A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce``ted vow``l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.