Scansion Definitions

Useful Words

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Pentameter : پانچ ارکان کا ایک شعر , Catalectic : بے وزن , Acatalectic : مکمل مصرعہ , Hexameter : چھ سطروں والا بند , Patterned : نمونہ کے مطابق , Poesy : شاعری , Verse : جملہ , Versification : شاعری , Poem : نظم , Backslider : پرانی غلطیاں دوہرانے والا , Break : خلاف ورزی کرنا , Acculturation : دوسری ثقافت کو قبول کرنا , Hydromancy : پیش گوئی یا قیاس کرنے کا طریقہ , Interferometer : ایک آلہ جس سے فاصلوں کی پیمائش کی جاتی ہے , Amphigory : بے معنی تصنیف , Poetise : شعر کہنا , Jacquard : فرانسیسی موجد جس نے کپڑا بنانے کی مشین ایجاد کی , Kaleidoscope : سیر بین , Prose : عام تحریری یا تقریری زبان نثر , Run-On : جاری رہنے والا , Blank Verse : غیر مقفی نظم , Mock-Heroic : بہادرانہ انداز کی نظم , Octave : آٹھ چیزہں کا مجموعہ , Analytically : تجزیاتی انداز میں , Anatomy : گہرا تجزیہ , Alliteration : ہم آواز حرف , Acrostic : سطروں کے پہلے حروف سے بننے والا لفظ , Couplet : ایک ہی طرح کے دو مصرے , Acatalectic : سلییبل سے بھرا جملہ , Scanner : جائزہ لینے والا , Caesura : وقف

Useful Words Definitions

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Pentameter: a verse line having five metrical feet.

Catalectic: (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot.

Acatalectic: (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot.

Hexameter: a verse line having six metrical feet; It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature.

Patterned: having patterns (especially colorful patterns).

Poesy: literature in metrical form.

Verse: a line of metrical text.

Versification: the form or metrical composition of a poem.

Poem: a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.

Backslider: someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.

Break: fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns.

Acculturation: the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.

Hydromancy: divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides).

Interferometer: any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves.

Amphigory: nonsensical writing (usually verse).

Poetise: compose verses or put into verse.

Jacquard: French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834).

Kaleidoscope: an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors.

Prose: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.

Run-On: (verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines.

Blank Verse: unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter).

Mock-Heroic: a satirical imitation of heroic verse.

Octave: a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse.

Analytically: by virtue of analysis.

Anatomy: a detailed analysis.

Alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

Acrostic: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.

Couplet: a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.

Acatalectic: (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables.

Scanner: someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables.

Caesura: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line.