scansion

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈskæn.ʃən/

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

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

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.”
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.”
“And it saw the concept of an historical time in linear development as depriving it of the reassuring repetitions of a circular form of chronology that was connected to the seasons and to the cycle of agricultural work; which in turn was scansioned by rituals that reasserted its continuity with the world of myth.”