Greek Assonance & Consonance Detector

How to use the detector

1. Upload or paste a UTF-8 Greek text.
2. Configure the detection options below.
3. Click Run Detector.
4. Results appear below with an annotated text and an occurrence table.

Definitions

Assonance

Repetition of a vowel sound — a single vowel or a diphthong — anywhere within nearby words (not restricted to word-initial position). Example: πολλὰ παθὼν καὶ πολλὰ πλανηθεὶς repeats the vowel α across four words.

Consonance

Repetition of a consonant sound anywhere within nearby words, in any position. Example: the λ sound scattered through θάλασσα… γαλήνη… λάμπε… σελήνη… λαμπρῶς.

Alliteration

The strict classical form of consonance: only the word-initial consonant counts. Enable the "Restrict to alliteration" sub-option under Consonance to switch to this mode. Vowel-initial words do not participate in alliteration — their vowel-initial sound is instead covered by Assonance.

Window size

How many consecutive words are examined together. A window of 4 means the tool looks at any run of up to 4 consecutive (content) words to see whether a sound repeats enough times within that span.

Minimum occurrences

How many words within the window must share a sound before it is reported. A higher threshold surfaces only the most emphatic sound patterns; a lower threshold catches subtler repetition.

Ignore vowel quantity

When enabled, ω is treated as the same sound as ο, and η as the same sound as ε, for the purposes of assonance matching. These are the only two vowel pairs with distinct short/long letterforms in the Greek script — α, ι, and υ have no separate long/short letters, so there is nothing to merge there.

Stop-word exclusion

When enabled, common particles, articles, and prepositions (καί, δέ, ὁ, ἡ, γάρ, μέν, ἐν, …) are removed from consideration entirely before the window is applied — they can neither trigger a match nor break the span of consecutive content words being examined.