Give an example of assonance from the poem Those Winter Sundays?

Assonance is a literary device in which similar vowel sounds are repeated throughout a phrase or line of poetry to create a pleasing lyrical effect. Here's an example of assonance from the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden:

"Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

a breakfast fire that filled the house

with lovely, burning odors."

In these lines, the long "u" sound in words like "Sundays," "up," "blueblack," and "burning" creates a consistent and resonant pattern, contributing to the poem's musical quality.