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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...
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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...
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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...
- The
meter was
quantitative (but not
borrowed from Gr****). The
meter was
accentual or
based on
accented and
unaccented syllables.
Despite the division, there...
- "beautiful (f.)"). This
terminology was
adopted in the
description of
accentual-syllabic
verse in English,
where it
refers to a foot
comprising an unstressed...
- Milton's Prosody, with a
chapter on
Accentual Verse and
Notes is a book by
Robert Bridges. It was
first published by
Oxford University Press in 1889,...
- distinction. This
happened relatively late and not
before some
important accentual changes occurred, such as Fortunatov–de Saussure's law and Dybo's law...
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since the
Middle Ages
imitations of the form
typically feature rhyme and
accentual prosody. It is "the
longest lived of the
classical lyric strophes in the...
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proverbs of
Publilius Syrus, and the
tragedies of
Seneca the Younger. In the
accentual-syllabic
verse of English, German, and
other languages, however, the iambic...
- 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...
