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Accent (poetry)

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syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an "open class" of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or because of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by
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Metrical feet
accents
pyrrhic
iamb
trochee
spondee
tribrach
dactyl
amphibrach
anapaest
bacchius
cretic
antibacchius
molossus
main article
v
t
e
poetry
stressed
scansion
foot
Stress (linguistics)
St. Edward's University
"Archived copy"
the original
cite web
link
Fact Monster: accent
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