over-reavingn.
/ˌəʊvəˈriːvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvə(r)ˈrivɪŋ/ Prosody. rare.
Scansion in which the metrical scheme is based on a complete stanza rather than on individual lines.A term coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins: see note s.v. over-reave v.
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over-reaving1879
1879 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1935) 86 These little graces help the ‘over-reaving’ of the verse at which I so much aim, make it flow in one long strain to the end of the stanza and so forth.
1973 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 25 ‘Over-reaving’, or the scanning of verse without break from line to line, is a structural necessity following upon the method of scansion Hopkins proposes for sprung rhythm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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