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S0121500 (skăn′shən)n. Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.

[Late Latin scānsiō, scānsiōn-, from Latin, act of climbing, from scānsus, past participle of scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]

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(ˈskænʃən) n (Poetry) the analysis of the metrical structure of verse. See quantity⁷, stress⁴[C17: from Latin: climbing up, from scandere to climb, scan]

scan•sion

(ˈskæn ʃən)

n. the metrical analysis of verse. [1645–55; < Late Latin scānsiō, Latin: the act of climbing =scand(ere) to climb + -tiō -tion]

scansion

the analysis of verse into its metrical or rhythmic components.See also: Verse

scansion

The metrical pattern of a line.

Thesaurus

Noun

scansion - analysis of verse into metrical patternscadence, metre, meter, measure, beat - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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the analysis of the metrical structure of verse

Scansion

the artificial reading of poetry to emphasize its metric structure. In the scanning of syllabic verse, each syllable is emphasized separately. In the scanning of syllabotonic verse, all strong syllables are stressed and all weak syllables are left unstressed; for example, Dukh-ótritsán’ia, dúkh somnén’ia (“Spirit of negation, spirit of doubt”; A. Pushkin). When dol’niki and taktoviki are scanned, the syllables are drawn out or pauses are inserted in the shortened intervals between the stresses, for example, Vkhozhú-u ia v témnye khrámy or Vkhozhú ia (pause) v témnye khrámy (“I enter dark temples”; A. A. Blok).

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