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Examples of scansion
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A system of scansion is a way to mark the metrical patterns of a line of poetry.
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Mr Nel's scansion reveals that Seuss's favourite metre was iambs followed by anapests.
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Different systems of scansion are being documented in the article Systems of Scansion.
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Over the years, many different systems have been established to mark the scansion of a poem.
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Acephalous lines are usually deliberate variations in scansion, but this is not always obvious.
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Her scansion is OK but the rhymes need some touching up.
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The scansion of his verses seems occasionally to require, in French fashion, an accent on an unstressed syllable.
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Quite apart from the problems of scansion the line.
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Even the scansion of this annoys.
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- Analysis of verse into metrical patterns
- Scansion is the act of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse.
- The analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
- The process of measuring verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern.
- Mapping a poem's form into it's feet and syllable pattern.
- An analysis of the beat or rhythm of a poem.
- (n.) the principle of getting lyrics to scan.
- Analysis of the kind and number of metrical feet in a poem
- The analysis or "scanning" of a poem to determine its Meter and often its rhyme scheme. The most common system of scansion uses accents (slanted lines drawn above syllables) to show stressed syllables, breves (curved lines drawn above syllables) to show unstressed syllables, and vertical lines ...
