| It is the unstressed environment that licenses anaptyxis, and so consistently closed, unstressed syllables are required. |
| The stressed emotional eaters ate more sweet, high-fat, energy-dense foods than did the unstressed non-emotional eaters. |
| Many local accents are marked by a rhythm that tends to lengthen stressed vowels and to reduce or eliminate unstressed short vowels. |
| Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak vowels. |
| When unstressed syllables are not dropped at the beginning or the end of a line, they are said to be acatalectic. |
| The final foot of the fourth line is an example of catalexis, the dropping of one or more unstressed syllables at the end of a line. |
