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scansion
[ skan-shuhn ]
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.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of scansion1
C17: from Latin: climbing up, from scandere to climb, scan
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Nash’s are hard to decipher anyway; because rhyme and scansion aren’t her thing, the ear gets no help.
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Clarity for lyricists has to refer not just to scansion and word choice, but also how their songs are communicated.
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There’s something about Shakespeare and the language that, as a Black performer, I naturally get: the rhythms, the scansion, the iambic pentameter.
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While other poets might spend years studying the scansion of poetry, she said she’s not as interested in form.
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Donaldson is obsessed with scansion – where the stresses fall in a line.
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