Sentence examples for stressed syllable from inspiring English sources

The X represents an un-stressed syllable and the / represents a stressed syllable.

Each iambic foot is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

("Ove" rhymes with "rove"; the stressed syllable in "Arup" is the first).

Anapest, metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.

A line of iambic pentameter verse, for example, consists of five feet, each of which is an iamb (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable).

The commonest feet in English verse are the iamb, an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word ˘re| ´port; the trochee, a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable, as in the word ´dai|˘ly; the anapest, two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in ˘ser|e˘| ´nade; and the dactyl, a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in ´mer|˘ri|˘ly.

Using the first line of Sonnet 86, the un-stressed and stressed syllables are highlighted.

Underlined letters denote stressed syllables.

Alliteration, in prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

In stressed syllables either the vowel or the following consonant is long (except in Danish).

Think of how clusters of stressed syllables can sound resolute and determined.