scansions in a sentence
Examples
- This is a case in which 2-level scansion is felt to miss something essential even by some rather strict prosodists.
- Politically correct versions of this poem using inclusive language have been published, ruining the scansion and raising Pugh's ire.
- I only find many websites that describe scansion and give a few examples, which is not what I am looking for.
- Wilfred Owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated Horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of Latin scansion.
- In the final analysis, the terms of scansion are blunt instruments, clumsy ways of describing the infinitely nuanced rhythms of language.
- These distinctions are not made explicit by the scansion, so in cases like this clarification may be required in the article text.
- Because of the variety of stress levels in language, 2-level notation is not adequate for a rhythmic scansion of any sensitivity.
- Scansion is the act of analyzing and ( usually ) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse . " Ideally"
- It cannot be utilized as diacritics, and therefore always requires 2 lines ( 1 for the verse, and 1 for the scansion ).
- Differences in scansion, however, tend to be conditioned more by metrists'theoretical preconceptions than by differences in how they hear the line.