24 December 2018
scansion
[skan-shuh n]
noun Prosody.
the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.
Origin of scansion
1645–55; Late Latin scānsiōn- (stem of scānsiō), Latin: a climbing, equivalent to scāns(us) (past participle of scandere to climb) + -iōn- -ion
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Examples from the Web for scansion
Contemporary Examples
Words are shoehorned in without much regard for scansion, stress, or tone.
You Too Can Hear U2 Overthink Its New Song
Andrew Romano
November 22, 2013
Historical Examples
It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?
Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853
Various
I wanted to read it aloud to you and get in my practice on scansion that way.
Beatrice Leigh at College
Julia Augusta Schwartz
Morris inserts ben after rakel, to the ruin of the scansion.
Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (of 7)
Geoffrey Chaucer
It makes no difference, either to the sense or the scansion.
Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (of 7)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Altered to Sim-e-kin by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll.
Chaucer’s Works, Volume 5 (of 7) — Notes to the Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Today’s quote
Reggae speaks of the suffering people of the earth through music.
– Bob Marley
On this day
24 December 1865 – Ku Klux Klan formed by a group of confederate veterans who are opposed to civil rights for African-Americans.
24 December 1979 – The Soviet Army, comprised of 100,000 troops, invades Afghanistan in response to Afghan insurgents (armed by the United States) who had been attacking Soviet troops. The occupation lasts for 10 years and results in the deaths of between 600,000 and 2,000,000 Afghan civilians, as well as 6,000,000 refugees who fled to Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets withdrew in 1989. The cost of the Afghan occupation is a significant factor that led to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation, the United States funded Afghan resistance in the form of the Mujahideen and other militant Islamic groups, out of whom emerged Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The real victims in this war were the Afghan people, who continue to suffer and to comprise a significant portion of global refugee numbers because of the involvement of the USSR and the USA during this period.