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Quantitative measures, like the Sapphic and Hexameter, were composed accentually.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington

Here the verse is reduced to its barest constituents; every line is, syllabically as well as accentually, of equal length; and the lines run in pairs, without one double rhyme throughout.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

Students of poetry may note that seven lines have the exact hexameter ending, if scanned accentually, as voce proclamant; Deus sabbaoth, etc.

From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.