Scansion

"The process of analyzing and marking the type and the number of feet in each line of verse is called scansion" (Hamilton 205).

I happened to pick this at random, but after reading it I was glad I picked it because it deals with an something we do all the time, but we don't necessarily know the technical term for it. Scanning a poem is part of this term...scansion is just a fancier way of describing all of it!

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