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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 patternsplay

  Familiarity information: SCANSION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCANSION (noun)


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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