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English adjective: accentual

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


SamplesAccentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line.
Accentual rhythm.


Antonymsquantitative, syllabic









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