While most of today’s assonant end-rhymes seem simply the products of poets’ natural inclinations.    From LearnThat.org.  [http://www.ablemuse.com/essays/d-corrie_rhyme-4.htm]

Note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

And then she realizes that their names are assonant too.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

But the two people behind the names - are they assonant as well?.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

            "What is the word for which you are seeking an assonant?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hip-Hop Lit: New and Noteworthy] Reference

She writes on her own notepad, a line from a poem they studied last week, and underlines the assonant words.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

The assonant low short u vowel sound darkens the tone of this eerie image: smudged, thumbs, guns, fluttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katherine Parrish reads Lisa Foad] Reference

But before that it was called Pishpek and now it is Bishkek; what is the relationship between these amusingly assonant names?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK.] Reference

Alas, I do not have photographic evidence of the last artwork someone saddled this poor van with -- an assonant mural called "The Vein Train.".    From Wordnik.com.  [January 5th, 2006] Reference

The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Blunder joy] Reference

Brian: Those two sonnets I think of as still in the AABB scheme, just ... stretching it with the assonant rather than full rhymes (sorta "AaBb" rather than "abcd").    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Lives] Reference

At what point did he see that the two important women in the novel, Amy and the "delighting" young writer Jamie Logan — the object of Zuckerman's dead-end desire — have usefully assonant names?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost] Reference

The last three sonnets -- again with the assonant rhyme sonnet marking the transition -- do finally settle into an alternating rhyme scheme ... except that they form a triplet, so the asymmetry should balance the regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Lives] Reference

According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Who really discovered Machu Picchu?] Reference

Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way).    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Lives] Reference

Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

Latin of Apuleius often approximates nearly to assonant or rhymed verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

Only the second and fourth lines rimed, and the rime was merely assonant or vowel rime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

A.W. Schlegel (1803) and Gries had made translations from Calderon in assonant verse; and Friedrich.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

The versification is careless; when rhyme hampered the poet he dropped it, and used instead the assonant rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Epics] Reference

For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the "oo" (ou / ue) sound is repeated within the sentence and is assonant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

It is written in the assonant, or vowel rhyme, that was universal among European nations in the early stage of their civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Epics] Reference

Scarcely it is its frizzy inculpable, or the that it is mistily nigh and drastically and lit up to garbanzo the blunder for catastrophic assonant autoinjector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Yet the songs themselves are of the simplest kind, not rhymed even, but only imperfectly assonant, stanzas of twenty or thirty lines apiece, all ending with a similar vowel sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry] Reference

My students in an undergraduate class, for example, could not pick out assonant rhyme in a Lorca romance when listening to Margarita Xirgú -- the great actress associated with Lorca himself -- read them out loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [¡Bemsha SWING!] Reference

In one sense, all national poetry is original, even though it be shackled by rules of traditional prosody, and has adopted the system of rhyme devised by writers in another language, whose words seem naturally to bourgeon into assonant terminations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan] Reference

It consists of 4002 verses, written in langue d'oil, grouped in stanzas or "laisses" of irregular length, in the heroic pentameter, having the same assonant rhyme, and each ending with "aoi," a word no one has succeeded in translating satisfactorily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Epic] Reference

I feel like naysayers could call Finale faceless but then I'd point them toward the slick charisma of the hook on "Style," the gasping assonant second verse of "Motor Music," or be like just listen to the appropriately named, fundamentally hook-less "Heat," a four-minute rush of battle emceeing imbued with the weather and economy of Detroit but covering Barry Bonds and Iraq, casual sermonizing and preteens making out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cokemachineglow.com] Reference

Veolia’s assonant, content-free corporate name conceals a long history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Big Water] Reference

+ (2) offices in rhymed prose, i. e., offices with very free and irregular rhythm, or with dissimilar assonant long lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference