Hopkins's use of "seared," "bleared," and "smeared" is an example of assonance. In poetry, assonance is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphth.ong in no rhyming focused on syllables sufficiently close to each other for the reverberate to be perceivable. It is usually being use in poetry in order to add rhythm and music, by adding an internal rhyme to a poem