Crossword-Solution: ASSONATE 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

These lines are quoted by Eugenio Mele, in _La poesia barbara in Ispagna_, Bari, 1910.] page xlviii José Eusebio Caro wrote similar hexameters, and, strange to say, made alternate lines assonate: ¡Céfiro rápido lánzate! ¡rápido empújame y vivo! ¡Más redondas mis velas pon: del proscrito á los lados, haz que tus silbos susurren dulces y dulces suspiren! ¡Haz que pronto del patrio suelo se aleje mi barco! (_En alta mar_) The number of these direct imitations is large; but few succeeded.

The following rules for assonance should be noted: _(a)_ In modern Spanish a word stressed on the final syllable may not assonate with one stressed on a syllable preceding the final.[24] [Footnote 24: In the old _romances_ and in the medieval epic, _á_ could assonate with _á-a._ In singing these old verses every line was probably made to end in an unstressed vowel by adding paragogic _e_ to a final stressed syllable.

Pid., _Cantar de mío Cid_, I, 65 f.] _(b)_ A word stressed on the penult may assonate with one page lx stressed on the antepenult.

Other difficulties were when the proverb in Arabic is formed of two parts which assonate or rhyme, when the piquancy of a short sentence depends so much on the quaintness of its expression, when an untranslatable pun or play upon words is used, or when the phrase is too elliptical or too Oriental in its reference to be easily understood by English readers.