accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

English verse only two possible feet -- the so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference

English versification by substituting for rime and accentual meter the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

That is, to partially get rid of your most remarkable accentual features.    From Wordnik.com.  [P is for Pronunciation « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

In the following examples the Primary Accent is designated by double accentual marks, thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

Frederik Kortlandt, On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments (2006), p.8 (see pdf): 10.8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

A 'translation' that satisfied the quantitative and accentual formulas of the original could retain no approximation of its literal sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stravinsky's Svadebka (Les Noces)] Reference

Kingsley's Andromeda (1858), which occupy a middle ground between the purely accentual and the purely (so-called) quantitative experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

These anti-accentual rhythms are continually found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

The series of values for the four accentual positions follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

Rhymes under prescribed accentual conditions: iambic tetrameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

Not only the quantitative, but also the accentual principle is rejected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

In intensity the syncopated measure is a point of increased accentual stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

There is an enthralling quality to the cyclical, accentual repetitions of rhythms.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

Words of more than one syllable may be divided by the hyphen (-), and the accentual mark ( ').    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

For the essence of language and the natural tendency of the people favor the accentual principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Diderot's choice of prose was dictated and justified by the accentual poverty of his mother-tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

The writer does not avail himself of the new accentual quantification, and his other licences are but few.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

The last case is therefore a compromise between the quantitative and the accentual or rhythmical principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

It is written in hexameters, composed on a system which wavers between the quantitative and accentual treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

The new quiver, the new shudder, the utter terror, and the utter love appear in mediaeval rhymed accentual poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

But the return to free accentual verse in the "Christabel" was an innovation at the beginning of the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rime of the ancient mariner] Reference

Left untouched by the revisers of Urban VIII, it lacks classical prosody, is in accentual rhythm, and rhymes alternately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

Only a very few lines are wholly quantitative, and none are wholly accentual, except where accent and quantity happen to coincide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

The former devoted himself to a considerable extent to the quantitative as well as to the accentual poetry, and not without result.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The values of the three elements when considered irrespective of accentual stress are as follows: First, 1.000; second, 1.001; third.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

How large may such a group become and still remain fundamentally simple, without reduplication of accentual or temporal differentiation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

Variation from the type does not, therefore, unconditionally indicate a point of accentual stress, though the two are commonly connected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

As found in the Roman Missal, the Dies Iræ is a Latin poem of fifty-seven lines in accentual (non-quantitative), rhymed, trochaic metre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

The proportional intensive values of the successive reactions for the series of possible accentual positions are given in the following table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The contribution of the several intervals according to position in the series and irrespective of accentual stress is given in the table following.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The alliterative accentual verse of indefinite length is obviously unsuited for all the lighter, and for some of the more serious, purposes of verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

Similarly, in Table XLV. are given the proportional values of the series of intervals in order of their position in the group and independent of accentual stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The presence of a tendency toward initial accentuation appears when the average intensities of the four reactions are considered irrespective of accentual position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The syncopated measure, like the redundant, bears to the acatalectic group specific relations of duration, accentual stress, and position in the rhythmical sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The sort of verses to which Mr. Coleridge alluded are the following, which those who consider the scansion to be accentual, take for tetrameter catalectic iambics, like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference