Definitions for scansion

scansion scan·sion

Spelling: [skan-shuh n]
IPA: /ˈskæn ʃən/

Scansion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in scansion (acinnoss).

Definitions for scansion

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of scansion

1645-55; Late Latin scānsiōn- (stem of scānsiō), Latin: a climbing, equivalent to scāns(us) (past participle of scandere to climb) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for scansion

It makes no difference, either to the sense or the scansion.

Altered to Sim-e-kin by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll.

This syllable, therefore, gives the cue to the scansion of the whole line.

It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?

I wanted to read it aloud to you and get in my practice on scansion that way.

Morris inserts ben after rakel, to the ruin of the scansion.

For the structure of this verse, see p. 327; the following is a restoration and scansion of the passages in the Bestiary.

Consider the question which of these two systems of scansion is the more accurate and the more convenient.

I shall hold no brief for the good professor's method of scansion.

Words are shoehorned in without much regard for scansion, stress, or tone.

Word Value for scansion
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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