accentual

ac·cen·tu·al (

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adj.

1. Of or relating to accent.

2. Based on stress accents: accentual rhythm; accentual verse.

[From Latin accentus, accent; see accent.]

ac·centu·al·ly adv.

accentual [ækˈsɛntʃʊəl]

adj

1. of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic

2. (Literature / Poetry) Prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables Compare quantitative

accentually adv

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Adj.	1.	accentual - of or pertaining to accent or stress
	2.	accentual - (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm" quantitative - (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; "in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements" syllabic - (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities

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accentual [ækˈsentjʊəl] ADJ → acentual

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His chief work was a poem, "Chiliades", in accentual verse of nearly 13,000 lines.

Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context

Together with Sidney, who was Leicester's nephew, he was for a while a member of a little group of students who called themselves 'The Areopagus' and who, like occasional other experimenters of the later Renaissance period, attempted to make over English versification by substituting for rime and accentual meter the Greek and Latin system based on exact quantity of syllables.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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