Meanings of unaccented syllable in English

Get that pencil out and try marking each accented and unaccented syllable.

They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.

The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.

This rule does not provide for the cases when the division must come on an unaccented syllable.

The accented syllable of the dactyl is longest, and the second unaccented syllable, the last in the group, is shortest.

The first and third lines of each stanza have an added unaccented syllable, while the second and fourth have just three full feet.

Representing an accented syllable by O and an unaccented syllable by a -, the first line of the poem would be as follows:

By metre is meant a regular recurrence of accented syllables among unaccented syllables.

But there might also be as many unaccented syllables as the poet liked.

The unaccented syllables of the anapæst both occur at the beginning of the contraction phase (A).

VERSIFICATION, in English, is the harmonious arrangement of a particular number and variety of accented and unaccented syllables, according to particular laws.

A line must begin with an accented syllable, the last accent but one be followed by two unaccented syllables, and the last by one.

She made two sweet unaccented syllables of petted in her ingenue French accent and added: "For you know women were made to be pet-ted."