Assonance happens in poetry and it is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. A lot of singer songwriters use this in their songs to make it sound better. Instead of actually using simple rhymes, these songwriters use words that sound like they rhyme, but they really don’t. The song that I picked is Thinking Out Loud By Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran really uses this skill in his songs and he also makes it seem like the words rhyme by the way he stresses the words in his songs. In Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran uses words like arms and stars to make it seem like those two words rhyme, but they really don’t rhyme. Using words like this to make it