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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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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...
- "beautiful (f.)"). This
terminology was
adopted in the
description of
accentual-syllabic
verse in English,
where it
refers to a foot
comprising an unstressed...
- The
Latin rhythmic hexameter or
accentual hexameter is a kind of
Latin dactylic hexameter which arose in the
Middle Ages
alongside the
metrical kind....
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opposed to stress-timed
languages such as English, in
which accentual verse and
accentual-syllabic
verse are more common. Many
European languages have...
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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...
- (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,...
- Proto-Slavic
accent is the
accentual system of Proto-Slavic and is
closely related to the
accentual system of some
Baltic languages (Lithuanian and Latvian)...
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Bonaventure (1221–1274). It is a
medieval Latin poem
characterized by its
accentual stress and
rhymed lines. The
metre is trochaic. The poem
describes the...
