Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.
Read the first stanza of the Arctic Monkeys' "Adolescent.' Note the number of sound devices employed and how these compliment the music to produce a very catchy and pleasant rock song.
Other sound devices found in the song include
Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Consonance: the repetition of consonant sound but not necessarily at the beginning of words.
Fluorescent Adolescent :
You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it
in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty
nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as
the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking a Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a
rascal?
Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Not as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up...
Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now when she tells she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said she wasn't going but she went still
Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle
Was it a Mecca Dobber or a betting pencil?
Oh that boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
Weren't as daft as they seem
Not as daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up
Oh, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Woah.
Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You just sounded it out
You're not coming back again.