accentuallyadv.

1814 Q. Rev. July 463 We find now and then in the Hellenic poets a verse, which, being read accentually, accords with the modern Romaic tetrameter.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 36 The stress falling on the penultimate, as is the usual case in a Latin pentameter verse, accentually read in our present mode.

1898 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 19 380 Yet not every stressed syllable is accentually prominent in English verse.

1924 P. C. Buck Scope of Music ii. 31 If I had here an electric riveter, which would give a series of periodic taps all accentually equal, you would every one of you find yourselves sooner or later grouping those taps mentally as ‘one two, one two’ or as ‘one two three, one two three’.

1952 E. Morgan Beowulf p. xxi Much of the early poetry of W. H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, and Stephen Spender was written accentually rather than syllabically.

1974 D. Attridge Well-weighed Syllables (1979) iii. xiii. 193 Fraunce's hexameters are, if anything, accentually even more regular than Sidney's.

2005 S. Fry Ode Less Travelled (2006) 154 Even if this were accentually written like a music hall turn, folk ballad or other non-syllabic rhythmic verse, there is no discernible pattern of three-stress, four-stress or five-stress rhythm at work.