Crossword-Solution: SCANSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scansion | n. | The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SCANSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| METRICAL scanning | 1 answer |
| Metrical analysis of poetry | 1 answer |
| Poetry analysis | 1 answer |
| Scanning | 9 answers |
| prosody | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SCANSION (5)
The context bears this out; for the author utterly rejects the inspiration of the Muses in the preceding stanza, and proceeds to invoke furies, harpies, and, to use his own expression, `all this lothsome sort.' Many of the lines almost defy scansion, so that no help is to be got from observing the run of the lines.
The singular beauty of the verse analysed above is due, so far as analysis can carry us, part, indeed, to the clever repetition of L, D, and N, but part to this variety of scansion in the groups.
The eccentric scansion of the groups is an adornment; but as soon as the original beat has been forgotten, they cease implicitly to be eccentric.
Thus, both as to the arithmetical measure of the verse, and the degree of regularity in scansion, we see the laws of prosody to have one common purpose: to keep alive the opposition of two schemes simultaneously followed; to keep them notably apart, though still coincident; and to balance them with such judicial nicety before the reader, that neither shall be unperceived and neither signally prevail.
The rule of scansion in verse is to suggest no measure but the one in hand; in prose, to suggest no measure at all.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2008).