Associations to the word «Scansion»

Wiktionary

SCANSION, noun. The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.
SCANSION, noun. The act of analysing the meter of poetry.
SCANSION, verb. (of text) Put into a rhythmic form or meter.
SCANSION, verb. (by extension) Impose patterns on.

Dictionary definition

SCANSION, noun. Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne