Question

what assonance is in the poem daffodils by william-wordsworth?

Answer 1

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/assonance.htm

I've underlined a couple examples of assonance. What other examples do you see?

Daffodils

I wandered <u>lonely</u> as a <u>cloud</u>
That <u>floats</u> on high <u>o'er</u> vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth