Crossword clues for scansion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "action of marking off of verse in metric feet," from Late Latin scansionem (nominative scansio), in classical Latin, "act of climbing," noun of action from past participle stem of scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). From 1650s in English in literal sense of "action of climbing up."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The rhythm or meter of a line or verse. 2 The act of analysing the meter of poetry.
WordNet
n. analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Wikipedia
Scansion or a system of scansion (verb: to scan) is the act of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are based on the different lengths of each syllable, and in English poetry, they are based on the different levels of stress placed on each syllable. In both cases, the meter often has a regular foot. Over the years, many different systems have been established to mark the scansion of a poem.
Usage examples of "scansion".
Sidelight: By definition, scansion entails the scanning of one line at a time.
The reason was that although scansion was simple enough, it could only take place in the presence of a background microwave radiation.
Placement of subjects and objects seemed to depend upon poetic requirements of scansion and meter, with suffixes to differentiate among the cases.
I just heard one, and nobody had to tell me it was great, or what it meant, or who the poet was, or the scansion, or any academic booshwa like that.
While Tintoretto and Veronese moved toward openness and the asymmetrical, the two Gabrielis moved, in their motets and their instrumental music, toward harmony, toward regular scansion and the closed form.
It was a villanelle, smoothly accomplished except for a slip in scansion in the third line of the quatrain.
I deciphered the Easter Island script within forty-two minutes after I had completed scansion of the existing inscriptions, both above ground and buried, and including one tablet incorporated in a temple in Ceylon.
We counted Greek quantities until we were worn out, only to feel the rug pulled out from under us when he suddenly confronted us with the possibility, in fact the necessity, of accentual instead of a quantitative scansion, and so on.
I would have thought that he was too drunk to recite a limerick but he sounded off endlessly, in perfect scansion with complex inner rhymes and rippling alliterations, an astounding feat of virtuosity in rhetoric.
I know that the sour scansions of a later age will say that I bullied you, or that you nagged me.