Read full poem →writing whose cadence is more marked, more definite, and closer knit than
that of prose, but which is not so violently nor so obviously accented as
the so-called "regular verse." We refer those interested in the question
Dictionary Entry
To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
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syllable accentedenglish accented. accentedsyllables accentedvoice accentedaccented heavilyaccented strongly
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Poetry examples for “accented”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →writing whose cadence is more marked, more definite, and closer knit than
that of prose, but which is not so violently nor so obviously accented as
the so-called "regular verse." We refer those interested in the question
Read full poem →perspective, "What is deficient in the pieties and moral disciplines of contemporary church
life is what Calvin and the Refonned Tradition have accented with particular strength,
namely a theocentric focus for all of life: that vital sense of human limits and realism about
Read full poem →204. Voluble. See it in its more literal sense in the form zaybil
accented on the penult., in Par. Lost, iv. 594:
Read full poem →replaced by their nearest equivalent. The AE & OE digraphs have been
transcribed as two letters. Accented letters in the Italian poems have
been replaced by the unaccented letter.
Read full poem →s, preceded by a single vowel, is doubled; as, bell, mill, snuff.
Rule II. Monosyllables and words accented on the last
syllable ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel
Read full poem →front of Jove himself." The word does not occur in Milton. It is
correctly accented by Drummond (of Hawthornden), _Wand. Muses_:
Read full poem →Death is an Elephant,
# Shrilly and with a heavily accented metre. #
Torch-eyed and horrible,