accentual

[ ak-sen-choo-uh l ]

/ ækˈsɛn tʃu əl /

of or relating to accent or stress.

Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

Origin of accentual

1600–10; < Latin accentu(s) (see accent) + -al¹

ac·cen·tu·al·i·ty, noun ac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverb non·ac·cen·tu·al, adjective non·ac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverb

Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.

Stars Who Can't Do Accents |Richard Rushfield |December 9, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The accentual verses of the Romance tongues had their source in the popular accentual Latin verse of the later Roman period.

The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) |Henry Osborn Taylor
Art thou, detached from this vocal and accentual modification, is equivalent to thou art.

Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers |Thomas De Quincey
Trochaic and iambic rhythms then constituted the chief measures for accentual verse, as they had for centuries, and do still.

The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) |Henry Osborn Taylor

In accentual stress the redundant measure is of secondary rank, the chief intensity falling upon the shorter, typical groups.

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 |Various
Rebus sic stantibus, what's the use of talking about quantitative and accentual verse, as if they were really two kinds of verse?

The Voice and Spiritual Education |Hiram Corson

accentual

/ (ækˈsɛntʃʊəl) /

of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic

prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables Compare quantitative (def. 3)

accentually, adverb