Many of my doggerels are scansioned from letters I've written to these children while they were incarcerated in those warehouses for the minority nuisance, laughingly called correctional facilities.
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Scansion
//ˈskæn.ʃən//
Synonyms for "scansion" (21 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 6 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- العَرُوض verb (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse)
French
2 entries- scansion verb (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse)
- scansion verb (the act of analysing the meter of poetry)
German
1 entries- Skandierung verb (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse)
Italian
2 entries- scansione verb (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse)
- scansione verb (the act of analysing the meter of poetry)
Occitan
2 entries- escansion verb (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse)
- escansion verb (the act of analysing the meter of poetry)
Portuguese
1 entries- escansão verb (the act of analysing the meter of poetry)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
It is “mannered through and through” or, in Karl Kraus's notorious harangue, little more than “scansioned journalism” — an “artful stage-prop in the shopping window of a pastry shop or a feuilleton writer.
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At this time I got up and called the session over, punctuating or scansioning his discourse in order to symbolically communicate to him in action my belief that what had just transpired was genuinely important in the history of his therapy.
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The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.
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