How To Use Scansion In A Sentence
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Some of the entries failed to make the grade because their authors apparently didn't understand the scansion required.
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Would the Armed Services make their records available for scansion by somatotype and pigmentation?
Bad Medicine
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This kind of annotation of the rhythmic structure of a verse is called scansion, and the basic rhythmic pattern of a poem (if it has one) is called its meter.
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It is a commentary on our times, that to us it seems if not odd, then certainly unexpected that a warrior and statesman should devote his attention to intricate questions of scansion and metrics.
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It is a commentary on our times, that to us it seems if not odd, then certainly unexpected that a warrior and statesman should devote his attention to intricate questions of scansion and metrics.
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I took the liberty of fiddling with the scansion in Lines 3 and 7.
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The second quatrain labours in its diction as it emulates the sun's climbing of the heavens; the scansion of line 5, 'And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill' requires additional accents inserted into the iambic pattern ( 'steep-up heavenly) to achieve its effect.
Shakespeare
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Using conventional scansion the lines would scan.
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Let us say, to introduce the end of this discourse, what it is essential, at first, to articulate with the most extreme scansion.
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But for a poet concerned with scansion, as Chaucer was, that weak ending the final e offered was a blessing.
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The rest of the line follows the regular scansion, but this departure from the formal scansion at the start of the line contributes to its extraordinary power and helps to make it so memorable.
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But I'm not sure that I take your point about the equivalence of Japanese and English syllables in scansion.
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Very few children, for example, are now familiar with nursery rhymes, which not only fuel the imagination but form an introduction to scansion, rhythm and interesting vocabulary.
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Tennyson's epic Charge of the Light Brigade was really just McGonagall with a competent rhyme scheme and effective scansion!
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After a brisk run-through of key terms - they include scansion, rhyme, caesura, verse - he proceeds to a series of Shakespearean speeches for analysis, which form the main section here.
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Where others would use more flowery language to remain within the rhyming scheme and scansion they have set up, he can find simple ways to do it, so it doesn't become contorted.