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Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Iambus :: Iambus (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n..

Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger..

Accent :: Accent (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period..

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection..

Accent :: Accent (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

Accent :: Accent (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

Accentuate :: Accentuate (v. t.) To mark with the written accent.

Measure :: Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats..

Accented :: Accented (imp. & p. p.) of Accen.

Accentuation :: Accentuation (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A word; a significant ton.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds..

Accentor :: Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes..

Acute :: Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent..

Paroxytone :: Paroxytone (a.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Accentuality :: Accentuality (n.) The quality of being accentual.

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

Accentual :: Accentual (a.) Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others..

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