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Sure, but the article doesn't attempt to classify the stress, and the stress is often flexed as a convenience to help the meter or to avoid hard -to-pronounce double vowels, not to change emphasis.

"I don't what that one; I want thee other one. Thuh yellow one, not thee orange one."

In BrE, "the" before a vowel is pronounced "thee". So I'm not sure what you're saying.

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