A secondary accent may be placed when necessary as the speaker deems appropriate.

The 3rd beat of each 5-beat bar carries a secondary accent, which is marked explicitly in certain bars.

Quenya has also a secondary accent.

More often than not, the secondary accents fall on the first, third and fifth syllable, especially in nursery rhymes for which this metre is particularly well-suited.

He said, 'Duh Lih Lo,' with the primary accent on the second syllable, and the secondary accent on the first syllable.

Syllables are hyphen-separated, except that an accent or back-accent follows each accented syllable (the back-accent marks a secondary accent in some words of four or more syllables).

Secondary stress (or obsolete: secondary accent) is the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word; the stronger degree of stress being called primary.