accentual prosody

Accentual verse — has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timed languages… …   Wikipedia

accentual verse — ▪ prosody       in prosody, a metrical system based only on the number of stresses or accented syllables in a line of verse. In accentual verse the total number of syllables in a line can vary as long as there are the prescribed number of accents …   Universalium

accentual-syllabic verse — ▪ prosody       in prosody, the metrical system that is most commonly used in English poetry. It is based on both the number of stresses, or accents, and the number of syllables in each line of verse. A line of iambic pentameter verse, for… …   Universalium

PROSODY, HEBREW — This article is a survey of the history of Hebrew poetic forms from the Bible to the present time. The entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction the variety of formal systems the specific nature of hebrew literary history …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

prosody — prosodic /preuh sod ik/, prosodical, adj. /pros euh dee/, n. 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton s prosody. 3. Ling. the stress and intonation… …   Universalium

accentual — /əkˈsɛntʃuəl/ (say uhk senchoohuhl) adjective 1. relating to accent; rhythmical. 2. Prosody of, relating to, or characterised by syllabic accent (distinguished from quantitative). –accentually, adverb …   Australian English dictionary

Milton's Prosody (book) — Milton s Prosody, or in full, Milton s Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889, and a final revised edition was published in 1921. Bridges begins… …   Wikipedia

Bridges' Prosody of Accentual Verse — In this final section of his book Milton s Prosody, Robert Bridges describes a prosody of accentual verse.Terms and notationBridges classifies the following types of syllable (alternative symbols have been added for browsers that do not display… …   Wikipedia

Foot (prosody) — The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of… …   Wikipedia

Inversion (prosody) — In prosody the Inversion of a foot, or anaclasis, is the reversal of the order of its elements. For example, in English Accentual syllabic verse the most common inversion by far is the reversal of the first iamb in a line of verse, thus resulting …   Wikipedia

Systems of scansion — A system of scansion is a way to mark the metrical patterns of a line of poetry. In classical poetry, these patterns are based on the different lengths of each vowel sound, and in English poetry, they are based on the different stresses placed on …   Wikipedia