The basic foot of dipodic verse, consisting (when complete) of an unaccented syllable,a lightly accented syllable, an unaccented syllable, and a heavily accented syllable, in htat succession. Poetry having a primary purpose to teach or preach.
The basic defintion or dictionary meaning of a word. Two succesive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rime.Ī metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.Ī meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls. That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning. The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. What a word suggests beyond its basic definition a word's overtones of meaning. The repitition at close intervals of the vowel sounds od accented syllables or important words.Ī poem about dawn a morning love song or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn.Ī fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.Ī harsh, disordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds.Ī pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation or, a natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax. Approximate rimes occur occasionally in patterns where most of the rimes are perfexct, and sometimes are used systematically in place of perfect rime. Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may also be said to alliterate with each other inasmuch as they all have the same lack of an initial consonant sound.Ī reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.Ī metrical foot consisiting of two unaccented syllables followed by onne accented syllable.Ī meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests.Ī figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.Ī term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. The repitition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. A syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented.Ī narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one. ‘Some of the entries failed to make the grade because their authors apparently didn't understand the scansion required.In this book, the same as stress.‘But I'm not sure that I take your point about the equivalence of Japanese and English syllables in scansion.’.
DEFINITION OF SCANSION SERIES
‘After a brisk run-through of key terms - they include scansion, rhyme, caesura, verse - he proceeds to a series of Shakespearean speeches for analysis, which form the main section here.’.‘Using conventional scansion the lines would scan.’.