These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable.

The distribution of short vowels in unstressed syllables is a little complicated.

The distribution of short vowels in unstressed syllables, other than when absolutely final, was quite restricted.

If unstressed syllables follow, they often have a falling intonation, but this is not a rule.

Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

Unlike typical Western poetry, however, the number of unstressed syllables could vary somewhat.

See further the section on initial unstressed syllables below.

English meter is founded on the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Note that the developments in unstressed syllables were both simpler and less predictable.

Here stressed and unstressed syllables follow one after the other.