Definition of Accentual. Meaning of Accentual. Synonyms of Accentual

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Definition of Accentual

Accentual
Accentual Ac*cen"tu*al, a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Meaning of Accentual from wikipedia

- Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress-timed...
- Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic...
- free verse does not share. Sprung rhythm may be classed as a form of accentual verse, as it is stress-timed, rather than syllable-timed, and while sprung...
- opposed to stress-timed languages such as English, in which accentual verse and accentual-syllabic verse are more common. Many European languages have...
- following accentual type I can also shift to the next syllable. In these forms, accentual changes are the same as for verbs following accentual type II...
- distinction. This happened relatively late and not before some important accentual changes occurred, such as Fortunatov–de Saussure's law and Dybo's law...
- idea that regular accentual meter is critical to English poetry. Jeffers experimented with sprung rhythm as an alternative to accentual rhythm. In the Western...
- Welsh poetry, but from the middle of the 17th century a host of imported accentual metres from England became very po****r. By the 19th century the creation...
- Latin characters. Proto-Indo-European accent refers to the theoretical accentual (stress) system of the Proto-Indo-European language. Proto-Indo-European...
- (Ancient Gr**** and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern poetry. In classical poetry,...