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Consonance:

the repetition of consonants and sounds within words.

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        This device is nearly the same as assonance, only it uses consonant sounds instead of vowels. This device does nothing accept help the flow of the stanzas slightly. The effect of this device is not as apparant as it may be in other poems. This is another difficult device to understand.

 
 
if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you

then people will say
"Along this road i saw a princess pass
on her way to meet her lover(it was
toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants."
 
(E.E. Cummings, www.americanpoems.com)