scansion

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.

2. 2

   The act of analyzing the meter of poetry.

3. 3

   Of text, to put into a rhythmic form or meter.

   • 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.
   • 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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   1. 4

      To impose patterns on.

      • 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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