accentual
Americanadjective
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of or relating to accent or stress.
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Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.
adjective
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of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
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prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables Compare quantitative
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Eventually, he stirs in some variations of speed and volume, accentual bursts of sound, with deeper tones and crunch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Otherwise, they dress like the British, their mother tongue is English, with an accentual twang of Indian and they are Christians.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013
This is highly important because it shows that although the nomina basis of his prosody is both accentual and syllabic, the latter element is really its defining principle.
From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Edward Bysshe
Otherwise, the rhythm bears the appearance of a six-foot accentual iambic, an appearance which is confirmed by the recurrence of a single rhyme or assonance in a throughout the poem.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Elision came to be disregarded; and even the accentual values, which may at first have formed a substitute for quantity, yielded to musical notation.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
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