scansion

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English - Turkish
{i} vezin araştırma
vezin bulma
vezin tahlili
{i} veznini bulma
tarama
analysis of meter in poetry
şiir metre analizi
English - English
The act of analysing the meter of poetry
The rhythm or meter of a line or verse
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
{i} analysis of meter in poetry
The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise
The analysis of line rhythms performed by scanning the lines to determine their metrical categorization, e g , iambic trimeter, etc , as a way of describing the rhythmical quality of a poem Scansion will also show the variations in the meter and the deviations from it, if there are any Sidelight: Scansion accounts for syllabic accents, but does not differentiate between the relative "weights" of stress, one of the means by which a skillful poet modulates the rhythm for effect Sidelight: Individual judgements often play a part in the scansion process, since the divisions between feet may be subject to differences of interpretation
finding the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem
- the process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical qualities of the line
analysis of verse into metrical patterns
the process of analysing poetry to determine the metre and number of feet per line Each combination of stressed and unstressed syllables has a special term (see table below) Also, there are terms describing the number of feet (syllables) per line, also shown below
The systematic analysis of metrical patterns of stress, syllable by syllable, sound unit by sound unit
The study of verse for patterns of accented and unaccented syllables; also known as "metrics "
Mapping a poem's form into it's feet and syllable pattern
scansion

    Hyphenation

    scan·sion

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From the Late Latin scanscionem, from Latin scansio "the act of climbing", from scandere "to climb".
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