Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of scanning; the measuring of a verse by feet in order to see whether the quantities are duly observed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Pros.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Etymologies
- From Late Latin scanscionem, accusative singular of scansiō ("the act of climbing"), from scandō ("I climb"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin scānsiō, scānsiōn-, from Latin, act of climbing, from scānsus, past participle of scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Even in something as formal as poetry, it can be difficult to decide whether this imperfection in the scansion is deliberate variety meant to relieve rigidity?”
“Time is both tension and scansion, rhythm and flux, continuity and discontinuity, and also repetition: All of which is translated in the artists' works.”
“I didn't do the scansion right," she explained later, still punishing herself for the error, and for having whatever is the opposite of a poker face.”
“But even in advance of the play's publication next month, there is much excitement among McGonagall's cult following, who are looking forward to "the usual banalities, execrable rhymes and appalling scansion.”
“My friends Caitlin Gibson and Pat Myers ably assisted with scansion.”
The Washington Post: Rhymin' sly man: If Shakespeare had worked the Catskills ...
“Whereas speeches are an opportunity for scale and scansion, debates demand quickdraw putdowns.”
The Huffington Post: Azeem Ibrahim: Televised Political Debates Dumb Down Democracy
“Over time, I've come to believe that the rhyming knack is fairly common by comparison with the scansion knack.”
“In English scansion it refers to a meter than can be scanned according to two different “feet” (thus di-podic), verse that can be heard two ways.”
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“A bit long, and it lacks something in the scansion, I admit.”
More blogging lists, and the ultimate Lib Dem Golden Dozen headline
“(Variant: Pick a well-known song to whose tune, and in whose rhyme scheme and scansion, the poem must be sung.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scansion’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Meters
knitmeter, butyrometer, cathetometer, handsometer, meter maid, spammeter, ceilometer, dilatometer, bdellometer, bolo-tie-meter, fathommeter, meet-and-greet-meter and 117 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 566 more...
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Poetry Terms
April is National Poetry Month. Add your favorite poetry terms to this new list!
alliteration, anapest, alexandrine, caesura, assonance, ballad, blank verse, iamb, conceit, couplet, consonance, dactyl and 30 more...
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marginalia
exuberance, potsherds, earthbound, marcher, märchen, pastiche, transliterated, crocodile, oxbridge, jejune, publican, antithesis and 143 more...
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televisionarie's list
Way too pretentious.
limerance, scansion, legerity, tumescence, peripatetic, milieu, sangfroid, solipsistic, apanthropy
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Unsorted
poliorcetikon, lethologica, aegrotat, haha, logolepsy, logomisia, anfractuosity, nudiustertian, tontine, herostrat, acroamatic, bibliotaph and 132 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Nine out of ten physicians agree that excessive scansion is a leading cause of scancer. Jan 9, 2009