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Glossary of Poetic Terms

Scansion: The analysis of the metrical patterns of a poem by organizing its lines into feet of stressed and unstressed syllables and showing the major pauses, if any. Scansion also involves the classification of a poem’s stanza , structure, and rhyme scheme.

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