In Spanish, every syllable is pronounced, and every stressed or accented syllable is strongly emphasised.
Exceptions Cement' is an Exception to the above rule, and should always be accented on the last syllable.
Among these words, nouns are distinguished from verbs by this means: nouns are mostly accented on the first syllable, and verbs on the last.
Illustration: At the top of the stair, her height accented by her gown of white, stood Marian Devereux.
A collar of pearls clasped her throat andaccented the clear girlish lines of her profile.
Second, this rhythm of meaning is wedded to a rhythm of sound which is achieved by the observance of a varying proportion between stressed or heavily accented syllables and unstressed.
Lena moved without exertion, rather indolently, and her hand often accented the rhythm softly on her partner’s shoulder.
From the bluff bank which encircled the inclosure, the lads looked down on the contented herd, their possession and their promise; and the tie of man and his beast was accented anew in their youthful hearts.
To provide the roast, the spirit of rivalry was accented anew, and each camp fervently hoped for its own success.
Again the lesson that contact teaches wasaccented anew.
After an accented syllable a medial a is pronounced very lightly, even when the accent is not the main accent of the word.
When a long a, i or u precedes an accentedsyllable it is usually shortened.
Find five drawings in this book in which the accentedline is used.
The line that is used to express all this is called an accented line.
Select a basket, or a wooden box of somewhat rough surface, and make an outline sketch, using the accented line.
In Modern English verse the absence of a thesis between two accented syllables sometimes arises from phonetic conditions, i.
A third form of alliteration, though much less important and frequent than these two, occurs when the second accented syllable of the second hemistich shares in alliteration, in addition to the first accented syllable.
These are generally accented and alliterate, if compounded with substantives or adjectives, but are not accented and do not alliterate if compounded with verbs or other particles,[58] e.
In both cases this irregularity is softened or excused, so to say, by the pause, except where the accented or masculine ending of the hemistich is required by the very nature of the metre, viz.
In every hemistich of the verse there are according to Wackernagel two syllables with a grammatical or logical emphasis, and consequently a strong accent, the number of less strongly accented syllables not being fixed.
A poet's business is, in fact, to take care that the syllables which are to be rapidly pronounced are such as easily can be so; and that the syllables which are to be heavily accented are naturally those that ought to be.
Immediately afterwards, in the second bar, the rhythm has the accented part of the bar, but the sequence of notes has arrived at the seventh.
Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets.
The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
Knapp: some say the contrary, accented except when illative; A.
Words which take the accent mark merely to indicate interrogative or exclamatory use are given under the unaccented form, and the existence of an accented form is not mentioned if the English equivalent remains the same.
The y of tardy is a syllable because the vowel following it is accented; the y also of day remains, because, although an unaccented vowel follows, it is itself part of an accented syllable.
Black hair thrown off his broad forehead accentedthis resemblance; a composer rather than a prose-poet and dramatist, was the rapid verdict of Ermentrude.
Her superb young figure revealed an unsuspected loveliness where the snowy symmetry of neck and shoulders and arms was delicately accentedby the filmy black of her gown.
The troubled concentration of her face was reflected now in his own; the wind came whipping and flicking at them from league-wide tossing wastes; the steady thunder of the sea accented the silence.
It is a well-known property of human speech that it keeps up a ceaseless change between accented and unaccented syllables.
Now when the ear detects at regular intervals a recurrence ofaccented syllables, varying with unaccented, it perceives Rhythm.
A long succession of accented syllables becomes unbearably monotonous; a long succession of unaccented syllables is, in effect, impossible.
