Read full poem →'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'
Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,
Now nine years have brought him change of joy;
Dictionary Entry
A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
In a Sentence
“In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. accentaccent foreignaccent englishaccent southernaccent french
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Poetry examples for “accent”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →162. envied with the accent
on the second syllable. So
Read full poem →Ray laughed. Banjo’s rich Dixie accent went to his
head like old wine and reminded him happily of Jake.
Read full poem →But what avails
When Love's right accent from their wisdom fails,
And the Truth-criers know not what they cry!
Read full poem →language. While the classic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by
power of accent, several advantages for versification over our own,
chiefly through greater abundance of spondaic feet, we have other and
Read full poem →more perceived, by very few poets in the language. While the classic
tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by power of accent, several
advantages for versification over our own, chiefly through greater
Read full poem →In poem _36_ I have rendered the first word of line 28 as "One."
In the original the accent falls on the second letter but I did
not have a text character to record this accurately.
Read full poem →The very names recorded here are strange,
Of foreign accent, and of different climes;
Alvares and Rivera interchange
Read full poem →Burns, Byron and Shelley, Browning and Landor. It did not come easy to
the Elizabethans, whose natural accent was song. Donne's chief rivals
were Daniel and Jonson, and I venture to think that he excels them
Read full poem →First taught our English Musick how to span
Words with just note and accent, not to scan
With Midas Ears, committing short and long;