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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...
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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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edition in 1979 (ISBNÂ 0-07-553606-4).
Fussell distinguishes four
types of meter[1]:
Syllabic Accentual Accentual-syllabic
Quantitative ^ page 6. v t e...
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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...
- as
conservative Slavic languages like Serbo-Croatian, have a
complex accentual system with
short and long
vowels in all syllables, a free
pitch accent...
- (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,...
- 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...
