scansion

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Late Latin scansiōnem, accusative singular of scansiō (“the act of climbing”), from scandō (“to climb”).

Absence of scansion tortured the ear. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet
The language had undergone some changes since Chaucer's time, which made his scansion obsolete. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Amidst the overwrought sentimentality and faulty scansion which marked most of the pieces was one simple little poem that struck a true note, said its little say, and quit--without a superfluous word. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck

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