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The sentence there was an iciness a sinking a sickening of the heart is an example of. Consonance, rythme, onomatopoeia, slant rhyme.

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I think it's slant rhyme 
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The sentence there was an iciness a sinking a sickening of the heart is an example of slant rhyme. This device is understood as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, yet the preceding vowel sounds do not match (sinking, sickening).

Also known as half rhyme, slant rhyme is used as a poetic device to give an inharmonous feeling in a rhyme scheme.


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