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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)...
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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...
- line of
iambic pentameter would look like this: × / × / × / × / × / The
scansion of the
examples above can be
notated as follows: × / × / × / × / × / When...
- فعولن مفاعيلن فعولن مفاعلن That is,
Romanized and with
traditional Western scansion: Western: ⏑ – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – Verse: Qifā
nabki min ḏikrā ḥabībin...
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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...
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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...
- of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In
basic analysis of a poem by
scansion,
accents can be
represented by a
short vertical line (')
preceding the...
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meaning two long syllables. (Cf.
other notations in
entry "Systems of
scansion".) The
avagraha symbol is
encoded at
several Unicode points, for various...
- The
history of
Latin poetry can be
understood as the
adaptation of Gr**** models. The
verse comedies of Plautus, the
earliest surviving examples of Latin...
- 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...
