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)...

syllable in sprung rhythm, for a scansion it is enough to specify which syllables are stressed. One proposed scansion of this poem is I cáught this mórning...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

Australia SCAN (newspaper), the student newspaper at Lancaster University, UK Scansion, in poetry Scan reading, a method of speed reading Scientific content analysis...

Mandākrāntā (Sanskrit: मन्दाक्रान्ता) is the name of a metre commonly used in classical Sanskrit poetry. The name in Sanskrit means "slow-stepping" or...

line of iambic pentameter would look like this: × / × / × / × / × / The scansion of the examples above can be notated as follows: × / × / × / × / × / When...

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...

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...

version below, the spelling is updated, along with minor alterations of scansion, capitalization and punctuation. To be, or not to be, Ay there's the point...

process of deciding which syllables are long and which are short is known as scansion. A syllable is long if it contains a long vowel or a diphthong: Ae-nē-ās...

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...

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" =...

meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".) The avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points, for various...

primarily by pitch Accent (poetry), placement of prominent syllables in scansion Diacritic, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter Accent (fallacy)...

of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by scansion, accents can be represented by a short vertical line (') preceding the...

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...

فعولن مفاعيلن فعولن مفاعلن That is, Romanized and with traditional Western scansion: Western: ⏑ – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – Verse: Qifā nabki min ḏikrā ḥabībin...

dactylic pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion: – uu | – uu | – uu | – uu | – uu | – x – uu | – uu | – || – uu | – uu...

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...

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...

poetry, lyricists followed word order very loosely to achieve a desired scansion. Due to the presence of grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative...

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,...

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...

Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese. Classical...

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...

to the inhabitants of Boddam, Aberdeenshire. With comparable lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O"), it is plausible that 19th-century...

Scansion and rhyme analysis of verses 1–4 Stress ˘ ˘ / ˘ / / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ Syllable On a sum- mer's day, when the wave was rip- pled, Stress ˘ ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /...