Scansion

Quick meaning: Scansion is a noun meaning The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.

Meaning

The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.

More Meanings

1. The act of analyzing the meter of poetry.
2. (transitive) Of text, to put into a rhythmic form or meter.
3. (transitive, by extension) To impose patterns on.

Example Sentences

The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.

Many of my doggerels are scansioned from letters I've written to these children while they were incarcerated in those warehouses for the minority nuisance, laughingly called correctional facilities.

It is “mannered through and through” or, in Karl Kraus's notorious harangue, little more than “scansioned journalism” — an “artful stage-prop in the shopping window of a pastry shop or a feuilleton writer.

At this time I got up and called the session over, punctuating or scansioning his discourse in order to symbolically communicate to him in action my belief that what had just transpired was genuinely important in the history of his therapy.

Word Forms

• scansions
• scansioning
• scansioned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accent, line, stanza, iamb, iambic, thesis.

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