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Accentual

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to accent or stress.
2.
(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity.  "Accentual rhythm"



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"Accentual" Quotes from Famous Books



... dactylic hexameter, the standard measure of Greek and Latin narrative poetry. The most nearly successful English hexameters are probably those of Kingsley's Andromeda (1858), which occupy a middle ground between the purely accentual and the purely (so-called) quantitative experiments. An example of this and one of Mr. Bridges' quantitative hexameters must suffice. Though both have good qualities, neither approaches the melodic variety and dignity of Homer and Virgil, ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum


Words linked to "Accentual" :   accent, quantitative, syllabic


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