English metric poetry is usually called accentual-syllabic. Still, I notice that the poets here scan primarily in terms of stress. Steele's 1234 system is a pure stress-system, for instance.
Bob Mezey's osOS system differentiates between accent and stress, as far as I understand, but it is a system I don't quite get for that precise reason: What is the difference between accent and stress in poetry?
Also: Do English poets in general really write accentual-syllabic, or would it be truer to call most English metric poetry stressual-syllabic?
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Svein Olav
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