Sekirov Dictionary

scansion

/ˈskæn.ʃən/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

The act of analyzing the meter of poetry.
The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.

verb2

•
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. — 2000
•
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. — 1999

forms

scansioned · scansioning · scansions

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