Words are shoehorned in without much regard for scansion, stress, or tone.
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.
It makes no difference, either to the sense or the scansion.
Altered to Sim-e-kin by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll.
I shall hold no brief for the good professor's method of scansion.
This syllable, therefore, gives the cue to the scansion of the whole line.
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.
1670s, "action of marking off of verse in metric feet," from Late Latin scansionem (nominative scansio), in classical Latin, "act of climbing," noun of action from past participle stem of scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). From 1650s in English in literal sense of "action of climbing up."
