Sorry Hyp...
The use of vowel rhyme is exclusively a poetic device, where at the ends of lines or at specific points in the meter, instead of the entire word rhyming, just the vowels are rhymed.
It's not assonance.
What I think is really very interesting and very depressing is that this little discussion went from a discussion and a positive thing, to people trying to turn it into some sort of unpleasant, one-upsmanship sort of thing, and not because they really have an interest in the subject, but rather an interest in showing off, to be blunt. Not correcting something actually incorrect, but scrabbling around on the net to try to find a "fact" so as to disagree with something. You can find anything on the net; I found a Harvard site that said inflated latex balloons have the same pressure inside as out. And found another site, too, that said the same thing. That didn't make it so. Misinformation abounds. But I wasn't trying to take that information to try to prove someone wrong, at least. Just trying to LEARN.
Others KNOW they don't know anything about the subject at hand, but that doesn't stop them from trying to be contrary, just ego running around. In some people's zeal to show me a fool, they might do better to go look in a mirror.
That's how I read it. I've written and studied poetry and worked in the literary field for over 20 years. I'm a published poet and a published writer, not self-published, although there's nothing wrong with that. Have a bachelor's in literature, along with a B.S. in something else. Doesn't make me an expert, but it does give me more than a passing interest in the subject. I run a variety of writers' groups, both in person and online. I have a love of the subject and I'm knowledgeable about it. Doesn't mean I know it all.
And I'm outta here...
