scansion

• Perhaps even more annoying to any aurally OCD pedant is poor scansion (how the singer stresses each syllable). —  Expecting Rain
• The rules of scansion are relatively virgin territory for me, and I'm not suggesting that all lyrics should be written in strict iambic pentameter, but please just think before you open your mouth, Chris Martin. —  Expecting Rain
• Eh? Although there are well-established systems for working out scansion, common sense usually suffices to ensure the music fits the natural cadences and stresses of the lyric. —  Expecting Rain
• The course examined "what's the same as any other playwright, and then what's uniquely a little different when working with Shakespeare - you know, scansion (a way to mark the metric patterns in poetry), blank verse and all that stuff," Thibodeaux-Thompson said. —  The State Journal-Register Home RSS
• The former might excel in the knowledge--if we can dignify it by that name--of the laws of scansion, or in the composition of Greek idyls; but in all that constitutes real knowledge he would prove but an idle theorist, a dreamy imbecile, alongside our practical young scholar of the West The third and youngest of the party--taking them as they sit from stem to bow--differs in many respects from both those described. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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