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.
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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
If correctly printed, it has a dissyllable rhyme, with the accentual stress on ‘wi’ thee.’
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
That this would not affect the chansons themselves is true enough; for there are no relics of any alliterative prosody in French, and its accentual scanning is only the naturally "crumbled" quantity of Latin.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Certainly, however, the laws of quantity were forgotten, and an accentual pronunciation came to predominate, before Latin had ceased to be a living language.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
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