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  • noun Plural form of scansion.

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  • We played with scanning names, which is always fun, and the students were willing to get up and write their scansions on the board to share.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Bardiac 2009

  • Well, the idea could be: I will pay postal expenses and give fumetti for free to who promise to send back to me scansions or to share scansions on internet ...web-site? emule?

    BIANCANEVE, Pt. 3 2006

  • It is possible to disagree with some of his proposed scansions of doubtful lines, but it is impossible not to learn a great deal from suggestions as to the rhythmical effects intended by Milton which come, as these do, from one who is himself a master of rhythm and has never concealed the fact {225} that Milton's was one of the schools in which he passed his apprenticeship.

    Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

  • Bizarrely exotic scansions – and one certainly sees them, even in the august pages of places like the TLS – can rationalize much, and may have their scholarly purposes I suppose, but don’t actually reflect how poets write – or think – in meter.

    Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Romanos, like the other melodes, obeys a purely accentual or rhythmic law; the quantitative scansions are obsolete for those to whom he sings (see BYZANTINE

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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