Euphony

How it is used

Common in poetry analysis and sometimes prose analysis. Writers create euphony to support calm, beauty, intimacy, tenderness, or flowing movement.

Example sentences

1. The lecturer praised the poem's euphony, noting how the repeated long vowels make the night scene feel calm and continuous.

   Here euphony refers to the pleasing sound pattern itself, which strengthens the quiet mood through vowel repetition.

2. While revising the translation, we changed one literal phrase to preserve the euphony of the lullaby in the final stanza.

   In this example, the term names a sound quality worth protecting, even when exact word-for-word translation is less important.

Common collocations

• create euphony
• poetic euphony
• euphony in verse

Related terms

• poetryLiterary writing arranged in lines that uses rhythm, sound, imagery and often rhyme to express feelings and ideas in a concentrated way.
• poemA single piece of writing in lines, often with a regular rhythm or rhyme, that expresses an experience, feeling or idea through carefully chosen language.

More terms: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

• metaphor
• simile
• symbol
• imagery
• irony
• personification
• figure of speech
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• allusion
• allegory
• oxymoron