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Representation of poetic meter
Scansion (/ˈskæn.ʃən/ SKAN-shən, rhymes with mansion; verb: to scan), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually)
Scansion
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
فعولن مفاعيلن فعولن مفاعلن That is, Romanised and with traditional Western scansion: Western: ⏑ – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – Verse: Qifā nabki min ḏikrā ḥabībin
Metre_(poetry)
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
later writers of the genre, notably Plautus and Terence. The principles of scansion observed by Plautus and Terence (i.e. the rules for identifying short and
Latin_prosody
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
sing of arms, and of the man who first from the shores of Troy ..." The scansion is generally marked as follows, by placing long and short marks above the
Dactylic_hexameter
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
line of iambic pentameter would look like this: × / × / × / × / × / The scansion of the examples above can be notated as follows: × / × / × / × / × / When
Iambic_pentameter
Meter in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry
meter of the ashaar is same throughout. In terms of the European method of scansion, the metre can be written as follows (where "x" = long or short, "u" =
Bahr_(poetry)
Somali literary scholar
literary scholar, Prosodist and is credited with the discovery of the Somali Scansion system. Arale is the son of Aw Diiriye Guled Warsame Guutaale, a famed
Abdillahi_Diiriye_Guled
Poetry of the Latin language
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin
Latin_poetry
Poetic metre of the Anglo-Saxon period
metricists to be an extrametrical anacrusis. It is ignored for the purposes of scansion, including identifying the verse type in question. Another metrical system
Old_English_metre
Topics referred to by the same term
or double whole note Breve, a mark used to denote a short syllable in scansion Breve, a type of milk coffee Brèves, commune in Nièvre, France Breves,
Breve_(disambiguation)
Poem by Joyce Kilmer
"Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and
Trees_(poem)
Slanting line punctuation mark (/)
ways, e.g. with a pair of slash marks (⫽◌⫽). The slash is used in various scansion notations for representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse, typically
Slash_(punctuation)
Symbol used in Indian languages
meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".) The avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points, for various
Avagraha
Topics referred to by the same term
Australia SCAN (newspaper), the student newspaper at Lancaster University, UK Scansion, in poetry Scan reading, a method of speed reading Scientific content analysis
Scan
American-British rock musician (born 1950)
music that "hinged mostly on a hard rock chug beneath lyrics in which scansion overruled meaning." In 1972, Quatro embarked as a support act on a UK tour
Suzi_Quatro
Metres of Persian poetry
recitation and meaning resolution. A specific feature of Persian metrical scansion is the categorization of syllables into three lengths: short, long, and
Persian_metres
be gracious, O Goddess, to tell us. On page viii, Caulfeild gives the scansion in Homer's "original metre" of the third line of his translation as: Māny
English_translations_of_Homer
Mandākrāntā (Sanskrit: मन्दाक्रान्ता) is the name of a metre commonly used in classical Sanskrit poetry. The name in Sanskrit means "slow-stepping" or
Mandakranta_metre
Stressed syllable
of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by scansion, accents can be represented by a short vertical line (') preceding the
Accent_(poetry)
English poem
Old English original Translation Scansion Ac Godwine hine þa gelette and hine on hæft sette, and his geferan he todraf, and sume mislice ofsloh;
The_Death_of_Alfred
Speech in Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet''
version below, the spelling is updated, along with minor alterations of scansion, capitalisation and punctuation. To be, or not to be, Ay there's the point
To_be,_or_not_to_be
Learning technique that helps in remembering
formed into memorial lines. Such strange words in difficult hexameter scansion, are by no means easy to memorise. The vowel or consonant, which Grey connected
Mnemonic
Swedish artist (1862–1944)
Serpentine Galleries, 2016. ISBN 978-1-908617-34-7, p. 24. Sinclair, V., Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (London: Routledge, 2021)
Hilma_af_Klint
syllable's omission. Acephalous lines are usually deliberate variations in scansion, but this is not always obvious. Robert Wallace argues in his essay "Meter
Acephalous_line
Nickname for people from Hartlepool, County Durham, England
to the inhabitants of Boddam, Aberdeenshire. With comparable lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O"), it is plausible that 19th-century
Monkey_hanger
Poetic meter with eight trochaic metrical feet per line
second, fourth and fifth lines, reinforcing the rhyme: We can notate the scansion of this as follows: The following first two lines from "Womanizer" by Britney
Trochaic_octameter
Medical condition
may be placed on unusual syllables. The name is derived from literary scansion, because the speech pattern separates the syllables in a phrase much like
Scanning_speech
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion: – uu | – uu | – uu | – uu | – uu | – x – uu | – uu | – || – uu | – uu
Elegiac_couplet
Metrical foot
the rhythmic pattern: Using the 'ictus and x' notation (see systems of scansion for a full discussion of various notations) we can write this as: The word
Iamb_(poetry)
Form of verse
[page needed] "Formal Features of Jónas Hallgrímsson's Poetry: Appendix A. The Scansion of Lines of Modern Icelandic Stanzaic Verse". digicoll.library.wisc.edu
Alliterative_verse
Measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas
scandaglio, sounding-line (Latin scandere, to climb; cf. scansio, the metrical scansion). It was probably influenced by cantel, cantle, a small piece, a corner
Scantling
Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)
Horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of Latin scansion. However, there were few other echoes of Horace in the war period, possibly
Horace
Children's method of selecting a person
in the published script but are said in the movie; they're required for scansion and rhyme. "Seinfeld" The Statue (TV Episode 1991) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-01-03
Counting-out_game
Representation of a person through art
word occurs in Shakespeare's As You Like It of 1600 (II, vii, 193), where scansion suggests that the second syllable is to be emphasized, as in the Latin
Effigy
Topics referred to by the same term
Substitution may refer to: Substitution (poetry), a variation in poetic scansion Substitution (theatre), an acting methodology Chord substitution, swapping
Substitution
Book by Adam Bradley
and...Wu-Tang Clan, together forming a discussion on meter and accent, scansion, and slant rhymes". Bradley is an associate professor of English at the
Book_of_Rhymes
American birthday song
birthday, dear [NAME] Happy birthday to you. Since the syllable lengths and scansion of people's names may vary, the measure that includes the [NAME] invocation
Happy_Birthday_to_You
American band
Metallica, heavy metal music, or the heavy metal community. While the scansion and melody are usually Beatles-based, the music is played metal style with
Beatallica
French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)
experience, was mistaken in wanting to ritualize it as a technique of scansion (short sessions)". According to Jean-Michel Rabaté, Lacan in the mid-1950s
Jacques_Lacan
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
allowed only in the first two feet. It rarely occurs except in elegiac couplets. Prosody (Latin) Meter and Scansion with several Latin verse forms. v t e
Dactylic_pentameter
Metrical foot
number of Dr. Seuss books, among other examples. Anapestic tetrameter Scansion ἀνάπαιστος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon
Anapaest
Pause or break in poetry or music
Romance, and Neoclassical verse, which prefer medial caesurae. In verse scansion, the modern caesura mark is a double vertical bar ⟨||⟩ or ⟨ ‖ {\displaystyle
Caesura
Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)
operation, whose basic thrust was to prevent the emission of electrons between scansion cycles, was reminiscent of A. A. Campbell Swinton's proposal published
Vladimir_K._Zworykin
French children's song
him up with this song. The traditional English translation preserves the scansion, but alters the meaning such that Brother John is being awakened by the
Frère_Jacques
1998 film soundtrack album
instead, partly because it was slightly archaic, and partly because the scansion of the word fit the music!" "All I Ever Wanted" is sung by Amick Byram
The Prince of Egypt (soundtrack)
The_Prince_of_Egypt_(soundtrack)
Canadian poet, writer, and essayist
ISBN 978-1-77212-368-5 Knife on Snow (Turnstone Press, 2023) ISBN 978-0-88801-768-0 Scansion and Science – The Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture, Toronto, 2017. A superposition
Alice_Major
Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese. Classical
Classical Chinese poetry forms
Classical_Chinese_poetry_forms
List of methods used to convey information in a narrative
especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line. This technique frequently occurs within a poetic
List_of_narrative_techniques
Topics referred to by the same term
primarily by pitch Accent (poetry), placement of prominent syllables in scansion Diacritic, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter Fallacy of
Accent
Kannada's contact with Sanskrit and Prakrit, pointing to the fact the terms of scansion are borrowed from the latter's prosodical systems. Other forms which use
Kannada_prosody
1971 studio album by Gilbert O'Sullivan
game" and its lyrics to "Alan Bennett displaying an unmatched daring with scansion." Shindig! reviewer Marco Rossi echoed the McCartney comparison in a glowing
Himself (Gilbert O'Sullivan album)
Himself_(Gilbert_O'Sullivan_album)
Celtic tribal god
word and requires that the "a" be short (which conflicts with Lucan's scansion). In line with general Celtic vowel changes, the first vowel in the deity's
Teutates
Poetic meter of four anapestic feet per line
YERtle, that MARvelous HE Is KING of the MUD. That is ALL he can SEE". The scansion of this can be notated as follows: Anapestic tetrameter was introduced
Anapestic_tetrameter
Poetic device
preserve the long—short—short syllable weight sequence of a dactyl. Thus, the scansion of the second line is thus: πλαγχ θε, ε | πει Τροι | η ςι ε | ρον πτο λι
Correption
Character in As You Like It
writes that the name has two different pronunciations in the play. The scansion of the blank verse requires it to be "Jayks" (/ˈdʒeɪkz/)) at some points
Jaques_(As_You_Like_It)
1965 song by the Beatles
translation of "these are words that go together well", rendered, for scansion, as sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble ("are words that go very
Michelle_(song)
Metric foot in Greek poetry
20 December 2006. Entry for Diogenes from the Suda. "Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy". Riverdale School. Archived from the original on 2006-12-31
Pyrrhic
Poem by William McGonagall
pairs. The lines are sometimes of inordinate length and lack any form of scansion or metre. Finally, any pathos generated by the rambling narrative is usually
The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster
Capital of Somali Region, Ethiopia
International", (1985), p. 173 Andrzejewski, B.W. (2011). "Alliteration and scansion in Somali oral poetry and their cultural correlates". Journal of African
Jijiga
He produced editions of several Old English texts. He also proposed a scansion system for Old English in which rhythmic stress is assigned using musical
John_C._Pope
Order of syntactic constituents
poetry, lyricists followed word order very loosely to achieve a desired scansion. Due to the presence of grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative
Word_order
Fringe theories that Shakespeare's works were written by someone else
consistent with classical blunders in Shakespeare, such as mistaking the scansion of many classical names, or the anachronistic citing of Plato and Aristotle
Shakespeare authorship question
Shakespeare_authorship_question
Sounds and pronunciation of Ancient Greek
is not shortened (absence of epic correption). In the table below the scansion of the examples is shown with the breve ⟨˘⟩ for light syllables, the macron
Ancient_Greek_phonology
Metre used in poetry of Middle East and western Asia languages
letters have to be ignored or mentally interpolated when determining the scansion of a line. Finch 1984, p. 52. McCarus (1983), p. 75. İnan (2012), pp. 42–45
Hazaj_meter
by Kuvempu is a variation of Sarala Ragale. Anapaest Dactyl Systems of scansion Trochee Prof. T. V. Venkatachala Shastri, Kannada Chandaswaroopa, DVK Murthy
Ragale
pre-accentual syllables in Plautus and Terence by brevis brevians, for example, scansions such as senex and voluptātem with the second syllable short. In Old Latin
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin_phonology_and_orthography
Poetic verse form
from The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" demonstrate this, the scansion being: Another example, from Browning: Another example from Leonard Cohen
Dactylic_tetrameter
Dialect of Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong
Cantonese. This mapping functions consistently during early perceptual scansions, according to Daniel Silverman's (1992) two-level model of loanword phonology
Hong_Kong_Cantonese
short piece comprising seven numbered paragraphs. He makes a case for scansion being 'a sort of crutch or scaffolding in the act of composition'. The
Some_Notes_on_Rhythm_in_Verse
Literary form
completely unlike meter in English poetry, as scansion of an Urdu ghazal is based upon rules in Arabic scansion. The distinction between long and short syllables
Urdu_ghazal
Beliefs of the ancient Maya people
a specialized group of 'Prayermakers'. Prayers, with their hypnotizing scansion, often show a parallel (dyadic) couplet structure which has also been recognized
Maya_religion
Proto-Indo-European language sound law
prepared to judge the niceties of Rigvedic scansion) he took instead as the data to be analyzed the scansions in Hermann Grassmann's Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda
Sievers's_law
Celtic god of thunder
emphasise that Lucan may as well have chosen these deity-names for their scansion and harsh sound. Lucan's Pharsalia was a very popular school text in late
Taranis
Poem by William Blake
may be applicable to human experience". The rhyme scheme is ABCB. The scansion is difficult to place, due to a lack of pattern; the stanzas are asymmetrical:
The_Sick_Rose
Sonnets by H. P. Lovecraft
Whistles'" Crypt of Cthulhu 74 (Lammas 1990): 12–13. Burleson, Donald R., "Scansion Problems in Lovecraft's 'Mirage'" Lovecraft Studies 24 (Spring 1991): 18–19
Fungi_from_Yuggoth
American poet (born 1956)
of Toronto, and Harvard University. Since 2020, she has taught poetry, scansion, meter, and ritual classes online. 2012 Sarasvati Award for Poetry from
Annie_Finch
the Tolkappiyam. The rules given in Yapparungalakkarigai are used in the scansion of later works. The development of Tamil prosody can be broadly broken
Tamil_prosody
Brief syllable(s) beginning a poem or pickup note(s) in music
introduction proper. Music portal Caesura Catalexis Count off Prosody (music) Scansion Tacet Maiello, Anthony Joseph; Bullock, Jack; and Clark, Larry (1996).
Anacrusis
Written works of art
Teaching of writing: Composition – Rhetoric – Poetry – Prosody – Meter – Scansion – Constrained writing – Poetics – Villanelle – Sonnet – Sestina – Ghazal
Outline_of_literature
Poem by William Shakespeare
accented on the first syllable, producing a feminine ending." A resulting scansion is: / × × / × / × / × / (×) Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
Sonnet_15
1921 poem by Robert Bridges
footnotes are headed "Metrical Elucidations" and offer advice on the poem's scansion as well as explanation for some of the allusions. Here are a few lines
Poor_Poll
syntax, and diction; several commentaries; an apparatus criticus; help with scansion; and other resources. Cuneiform Commentaries Project, a research project
Commentary_(philology)
condescendence, condescension, descend, descendent, descension, descent, scansion, transcend, transcendence, transcendent, transcendental scandal- snare
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/P–Z
added a colour atlas, a bibliography, a chronology, the rules of Latin scansion, and tables explaining Roman weights, measures, coinage. The Dictionnaire
Dictionnaire illustré latin-français
Dictionnaire_illustré_latin-français
Learned style of literary Latin
Roman-oriented writers by blending their stylistic tricks with incompetent scansion and applying them to unworthy subjects.[citation needed] On a much more
Hiberno-Latin
English academic
From 1989 until 1996 Field played guitar and sang in the heavy metal band Scansion and in a 2014 article he discusses playing the drums in a band called Fracture
Andy_Field_(academic)
1967 studio album by Eric Burdon & the Animals
lyrics, referencing nights of drug use, which the singer delivers in a scansion that has been compared to rap. "Hotel Hell" features social commentary
Winds of Change (Eric Burdon & the Animals album)
Winds_of_Change_(Eric_Burdon_&_the_Animals_album)
Musical instrument
method of decomposing and reconstituting language through mechanized "scansion". A related technology was John Clark's The Eureka machine, which was invented
Euphonia_(device)
Prosody of Arabic poetry
the traditional method, are the following. Underneath each meter is its scansion by the European method (read from left to right), where – = a long syllable
Arabic_prosody
Indian vocalist (born 1979)
[T]he most remarkable element of her gayaki is the precise and powerful scansion — never an inadvertent splitting of a word, or a breather in the wrong
Kamalini_Mukherji
Four-line stanza form
determinative of Horace's actual formal structure). Gasparov provides this double scansion of Ode 1.22 (lines 1-4), which also displays Horace's typical long fourth
Sapphic_stanza
Poem by William Shakespeare
metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. Ambiguity can exist in the scansion of some lines. The weak words (lacking any tonic stress) beginning the
Sonnet_9
Poem by George Herbert
Scansion " I struck the board, and cried 'No more; UX UX UX UX I will abroad! UX UX What? shall I ever sigh and pine? XX UX UX UX My lines and life are
The_Collar_(poem)
Genre of songs
collections of one-liners, for fairly obvious reasons. The demands of rhyme and scansion ... Roach, J.R.; Carlson, M.A. (2009). Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson
List_song
American poet and writer
all the different forms of English poetry, the English metrical system, scansion of a poem, and memorised versification patterns. In 1935, Walker received
Margaret_Walker
2005 studio album by Unknown Instructors
Layoff* Gratuity" "Walk with Me" "Creature Comforts" "An Evening In Hell" "Scansion" "Adam's Apple" "Turf Songs" "I Think" "Lost and Found" All songs written
The_Way_Things_Work_(album)
Poem by William Shakespeare
× / When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (30.1) Differences in scansion, however, tend to be conditioned more by metrists' theoretical preconceptions
Sonnet_30
Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis
Anthology Full text of the poem in the Lithuanian language The text written in the original spelling, with the short syllables marked to show scansion
The_Seasons_(poem)
Type of poetic stress pattern
word dearest to him, "mother-country", is on his lips very rarely. The scansion is: ' x x ' x ' x x ' x ' x x ' x ' x x ' x x ' x x ' x ' x x ' x This
Accentual_verse
Poetry meters
showing how the words of a poem match a metrical pattern, is known as scansion. The above line of Virgil is scanned as follows, where – represents a long
Greek_and_Latin_metre
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