Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of scanning; the measuring of a verse by feet in order to see whether the quantities are duly observed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
rhythm ormeter of aline orverse . - noun The
act of analysing the meter ofpoetry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even in something as formal as poetry, it can be difficult to decide whether this imperfection in the scansion is deliberate variety meant to relieve rigidity?
More on Critique Hal Duncan 2009
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Even in something as formal as poetry, it can be difficult to decide whether this imperfection in the scansion is deliberate variety meant to relieve rigidity?
The Ghetto Within The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005
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Time is both tension and scansion, rhythm and flux, continuity and discontinuity, and also repetition: All of which is translated in the artists' works.
Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011
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"I didn't do the scansion right," she explained later, still punishing herself for the error, and for having whatever is the opposite of a poker face.
Back in School With the Bard Lizzie Simon 2011
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But even in advance of the play's publication next month, there is much excitement among McGonagall's cult following, who are looking forward to "the usual banalities, execrable rhymes and appalling scansion."
Culture Maxine 2009
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Time is both tension and scansion, rhythm and flux, continuity and discontinuity, and also repetition: All of which is translated in the artists' works.
Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011
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Whereas speeches are an opportunity for scale and scansion, debates demand quickdraw putdowns.
Azeem Ibrahim: Televised Political Debates Dumb Down Democracy 2010
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Whereas speeches are an opportunity for scale and scansion, debates demand quickdraw putdowns.
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Whereas speeches are an opportunity for scale and scansion, debates demand quickdraw putdowns.
Azeem Ibrahim: Televised Political Debates Dumb Down Democracy Azeem Ibrahim 2010
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My friends Caitlin Gibson and Pat Myers ably assisted with scansion.
Rhymin' sly man: If Shakespeare had worked the Catskills ... 2010
hernesheir commented on the word scansion
Nine out of ten physicians agree that excessive scansion is a leading cause of scancer.
January 10, 2009