SCANSION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • analysis of verse into metrical patterns
   Hypernyms(s) scansion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • meter (what does meter mean?)
   • metre (what does metre mean?)
   • measure (what does measure mean?)
   • beat (what does beat mean?)
   • cadence (what does cadence mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • scan (what does scan mean?)