Translations for „scansion“ in the Russian » English Dictionary

ме́трика

scansion

ру́сская ме́трика

Russian scansion

уче́бник ме́трики

manual of scansion

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English

Some prosodists indicate only ictic (or, in rhythmic scansion, only stressed) syllables, but this is not ideal since the number, position, and character of non-ictic syllables is also metrically significant.

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Poems set to music sometimes can come out po-faced, stuffy or spiky with awkward angles where the singing and the scansion somehow do not sit right.

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He begins his rhythmic scansion with a 3-level label for all syllables, but goes much further by elaborating rules describing how contiguous syllables impinge upon each other.

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He even teaches poetic scansion with a basketball.

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It can not be utilized as diacritics, and therefore always requires 2 lines (1 for the verse, and 1 for the scansion).

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In the final analysis, the terms of scansion are blunt instruments, clumsy ways of describing the infinitely nuanced rhythms of language.

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This is a case in which 2-level scansion is felt to miss something essential even by some rather strict prosodists.

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The top line represents his single-line scansion from 1995, and the lower lines uses his original 2-line system of 1982 (these are "theoretically" identical, only "graphically" different).

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Miller offers tour-de-force comparative readings... threading together the world-historical with the personal, poetics with the political, and wielding the instruments of scansion as deftly as a surgeon.

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One of the primary virtues of 4-level scansion is that it helps clarify a surprisingly specificand surprisingly controversialdebate.

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