The scansion of the first stanza may be indicated thus. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Here the quantitative scansion is perhaps as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The scansion of the sixth stanza may be shown as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
A bit long, and it lacks something in the scansion, I admit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The scansion is superb-this is a book meant to be read aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
A jelly scansion drops to the floor, a sack of strong coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Christie reads Ryan Fitzpatrick] Reference
Mark the scansion of stanzas 2 and 3 of the ballad in Canto IV. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
I had to call her "Ann" in the previous post to keep the scansion. From Wordnik.com. [I scan 2 photographs from the 1970s.] Reference
My friends Caitlin Gibson and Pat Myers ably assisted with scansion. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymin' sly man: If Shakespeare had worked the Catskills ...] Reference
Anyone who wishes to dispute my scansion might check Tom's lyrics here. From Wordnik.com. [Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2008 Archives] Reference
It's not quite as easy in my other classes ooh! scansion for 45 minutes!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Select three stanzas in different parts of the poem and mark the scansion. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
I wanted to read it aloud to you and get in my practice on scansion that way. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
What is dishonest here, or did you read it recently and its scansion appealed?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It rhymed and scanned, because we had been taught rhyming and scansion at school. From Wordnik.com. [margaret atwood | waterstone’s poetry lecture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Many a flower-girt dwelling and splendid scansion lacks all the essentials of Home. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
In responding to the self-imposed question “Is the correct scansion important?”. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
That wouldn't do, not even with music to make the bad rhyme and scansion less obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
The rhymes are all right, but the scansion of the first line is susceptible of improvement. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917] Reference
It helps that I can figure out the origiinals, so I know what the scansion is supposed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends] Reference
Whereas speeches are an opportunity for scale and scansion, debates demand quickdraw putdowns. From Wordnik.com. [Televised Political Debates Dumb Down Democracy] Reference
On the other hand, the high point of the day was starting to teach scansion and poetry reading. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
The final chapter, ‘scansions and Comments’, discusses what today is a lost art -- scansion. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
It is also clear that Dorothy Wordsworth knew how to write in common scansion, yet her niece Dora. From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
In keeping with the scansion, here is my humble submission for a song to go between the two verses. From Wordnik.com. [The Presidents] Reference
But pattern scansion tended to be too artificial; then the pattern conflicted with what was natural. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
Over time, I've come to believe that the rhyming knack is fairly common by comparison with the scansion knack. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
Here is where the authors begin their exploration of metrics proper and its corresponding concept of scansion. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
He does not seem to have a quick ear for scansion, which would sometimes have assisted him to the true reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
She had pulled down the green shade and propping her elbows in their former position had returned to her scansion. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
But Ridgway shows that the whole point of the colors was to create "legibility" and "color scansion" of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for the Lost Greeks] Reference
I have given the word "so" a double scansion because I conceive it impossible to determine whether it is really long or short. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
It is unfortunate that the authors use the term ‘scansion’ in place of close reading as it may tend to confuse the novice. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
I actually don't care for the scansion in this book about the ramblings of a black city cat, but the illustrations are amazing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Like this is the scansion of Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break.". From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
A knowledge of the most common forms of variation is necessary to correct scansion. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
The language had undergone some changes since Chaucer's time, which made his scansion obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
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