: Secondary stress in poetic meter gets promoted (or emphasized) when surrounded by non-stressed syllables: His po e try was bad vs. His po etry hurt Linguistically speaking the English language

Secondary stress in poetic meter gets promoted (or emphasized) when surrounded by non-stressed syllables:

His po e try was bad

vs.

His po etry hurt

Linguistically speaking the English language has 3 or 4 levels of stress (depending on who you ask). Poetic meter only has two however - thus it is the relative level of stress that matters.

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