ASSONANCE

'Assonance' is the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words as in, "some ship in distress that cannot ever live." The i's in those words have the same vowel sounds but they do not have to rhyme. Assonance includes but is not limited to alliteration with vowel sounds.
Assonance is more a feature of verse than prose. It is used in (mainly modern) English-language poetry, and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish and Celtic languages.
The eponymous student of Willy Russell's Educating Rita described it as "getting the rhyme wrong".

★ Hear the m'e'llow w'e'dding b'e'lls. — Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"

★ And 'mur'muring of innu'mer'able bees - Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''The Princess'' VII.203

★ The cr'u'mbling th'u'nder of seas — Robert Louis Stevenson

★ I'm hunched 'o'ver em'o'tions just fl'o'ws 'o'ver these c'o'ld sh'ou'lders are b'o'th fr'o'zen you d'o'n't kn'ow' me. - Eminem

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★ Alliteration