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scansion: a standalone construct

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Prosody

Marking out the meter of a line

In prosody, scansion is the analysis of a line of verse into its rhythmic pattern, marking the stressed and unstressed syllables and dividing the line into feet to reveal its meter. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics treats it as the practice of making a line's metrical structure explicit, the working tool by which iambic, trochaic, and other patterns are identified. The referent is a descriptive procedure applied to verse, not a feature of the verse itself; to scan a line is to notate how its rhythm actually runs.[1]

Unit
The marked pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and feet in a line
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Performed by assigning stress to each syllable and grouping syllables into metrical feet

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References

  1. Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916

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