The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
Lat. scandere, "to move upward by steps." Scansion is the science of scanning, of dividing a line of poetry into its constituent parts.
"The scansion of a line provides a graphic representation of the relationship between the metrical pattern and the stress pattern; that is, it shows which metrical rules are employed at particular points to realize beats and offbeats. It therefore directly reflects the way in which the line is perceived as rhythmically regular, indicating the degree and exact nature of metrical deviation at every stage" (Attridge, REP 361). Attridge here refers to his own beat-offbeat system but all forms of scansion use some sort of graphic representation to represent stress; the generative system uses trees and traditional scansion uses the long and short stress marks of classical meters.
The act of scanning (or analyzing) a line of verse based on feet and accent (strong and weak).
is the process of scanning a poem, analyzing the verse to show its meter, line by line.
system of indicating stresses and pauses in poetry using symbols to indicate stressed syllables, unstressed syllables, and pauses (caesuras)
The study of verse for patterns of accented and unaccented syllables; also known as "metrics."
analysis of verse into metrical patterns
analysis of the kind and number of metrical feet in a poem
scandere 'to climb, mount'; Ãý«ß¤ÀªR): A system for analyzing and marking poetical meters and feet.
The analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
The systematic analysis of metrical patterns of stress, syllable by syllable, sound unit by sound unit.
The method that poets use to measure metrical patterns.
The analysis of lines of poetry to identify their metrical pattern.
