In fact the wind in "Hesperia" is filled as if with this sound effect, which in turn is, or is filled with, something else: "the pulse of invisible feet." Ultimately the Hesperian breeze, that breath of poetic inspiration "from the region of stories," is perceptible in the way that verse is perceptible: as "feet" that make their presence known only by an imagined pulse that has no materiality, being neither visible (as
scansion marks on a page, for example) nor auditory but ideal.
In (1), we see that the traditional
scansion (7) gives the metrical structure [??][??]-x, which occurs in only 250 (1.5%) tristubh cadences in the Rigveda.
For him, the difference between meter and rhythm is the difference between relative simplicity and complexity: "The notation of
scansion defines with comfortable accuracy metrical structure; the rhythms of even the simplest poem are too complex to be ever completely analyzed" (39).
Il y a une abondance de coupes enjambantes: trente-trois, selon ma
scansion, y compris au premier mot, "Com|me," et notamment a "Fleu|ves" (vv.
The poet and prosodist Sidney Lanier developed systems of musical
scansion not because Tennyson wrote music but because meter was abstract and plastic.
The final chapter, "The Remedial Implications of Spatial Form," is the most remarkable portion of the book as Stevanato narrows in on Woolf's poetics and demonstrates formal analysis with accompanying charts and diagrams of
scansion. She parses Woolf's metrics to reveal the kinds of patterns, recurrences, repetitions, and variations surrounding the concept of vision that are central in the novels, a technique of formal prosody that produces "sound patterns" of meaning--verbal and literary patterns of expression, which complicate and finally give shape to space and vision (211).
Furthermore, those variations are made not by rigid
scansion but by how any reader interprets the voice of the speaker in the poem; what one reader hears as a spondee, another still may hear as the iamb the metrical grid of the line--iambic pentameter--says it should be.
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez's essay on Alexie's poetry is the most formalist of the essays and will challenge readers unfamiliar with
scansion, though the intervention is welcome because, as Ramirez indicates, Alexie's fiction has received more scholarly attention than his poetry.
This can mean modifying the
scansion of a line or searching for the perfect word.
Occasionally the turns of phrase here descend below the social class of the characters, and her changing of the hour of assignation between Falstaff and Alice to suit the
scansion could easily have been avoided.