Euphony
Pronounced YOO-fuh-nee.
Euphony: A smooth, musical pleasantness of sound, built from soft consonants and long vowels.
Euphony makes a line physically pleasant to say, which readers register as beauty or calm before they have processed a word of the meaning.
Euphony examples
"The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees."
— The Princess, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The lone and level sands stretch far away."
— Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."
— To Autumn, John Keats
"Linguists' favourite example of an inherently beautiful English phrase is 'cellar door' - beautiful in sound, banal in sense."
— common usage
Spot the Euphony
Score: 0/0A smooth, musical pleasantness of sound, built from soft consonants and long vowels.
"The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees."
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Euphony: common questions
What is euphony in literature?
A smooth, musical pleasantness of sound, built from soft consonants and long vowels. Euphony makes a line physically pleasant to say, which readers register as beauty or calm before they have processed a word of the meaning.
What is an example of euphony?
A classic example is "The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees." (The Princess, Alfred, Lord Tennyson).
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