accentual
[ak-sen-choo-uh l]
- of or relating to accent or stress.
- Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.
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Origin of accentual
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Contemporary Examples
Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.
Historical Examples
There is no such thing as quantity except so far as it is accentual also.
OpusculaRobert Gordon Latham
And he expounds the English accentual verse-system with clearness and vigor.
English VerseRaymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
The series of values for the four accentual positions follows.
For these, too, the general law observed in all accentual poetry holds good, viz.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
The main law for all accentual versification is this, that verse-accent must always coincide with word-accent.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
accentual
- of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
- prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllablesCompare quantitative (def. 3)
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