HOVERING ACCENT


Meaning of HOVERING ACCENT in English

Pros.

indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .