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SCANSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scansion mean?
• SCANSION (noun)
The noun SCANSION has 1 sense:
1. analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Familiarity information: SCANSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scansion" is a kind of...):
beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)
Derivation:
scan (read metrically)
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