Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to poetry whose meter is based on both the placement of accents and the number of syllables in a line.
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Examples
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William Carlos Williams's imperative "no ideas but in things" with an accentual-syllabic cross-rhymed stanza straight out of the Elizabethan songbook (WCW tried it himself, unsuccessfully, as a young man).
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