Definition of Scansion. Meaning of Scansion. Synonyms of Scansion

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Definition of Scansion

Scansion
Scansion Scan"sion, n. [L. scansio, fr. scandere, scansum, to climb. See Scan.] (Pros.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.

Meaning of Scansion from wikipedia

- Scansion (/ˈskæn.ʃən/ SKAN-shən, rhymes with mansion; verb: to scan), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually)...
- syllable in sprung rhythm, for a scansion it is enough to specify which syllables are stressed. One proposed scansion of this poem is I cáught this mórning...
- The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Gr**** models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin...
- literary scholar, Prosodist and is credited with the discovery of the Somali Scansion system. Arale is the son of Aw Diiriye Guled Warsame Guutaale, a famed...
- "Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and...
- Australia SCAN (newspaper), the student newspaper at Lancaster University, UK Scansion, in poetry Scan reading, a method of speed reading Scientific content analysis...
- Mandākrāntā (Sanskrit: मन्दाक्रान्ता) is the name of a metre commonly used in classical Sanskrit poetry. The name in Sanskrit means "slow-stepping" or...
- line of iambic pentameter would look like this: × / × / × / × / × / The scansion of the examples above can be notated as follows: × / × / × / × / × / When...
- formed into memorial lines. Such strange words in difficult hexameter scansion, are by no means easy to memorise. The vowel or consonant, which Grey connected...
- typographic substitutes for the click letters ǀ, ǁ. The slash is used in various scansion notations for representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse, typically...