We got in to Middlesbrough relaxed, unstressed, in sunshine and good health. |
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. |
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. |
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. |