31. This is a case in which 2-level scansion is felt to miss something essential even by some rather strict prosodists. 32. Politically correct versions of this poem using inclusive language have been published, ruining the scansion and raising Pugh's ire. 33. I only find many websites that describe scansion and give a few examples, which is not what I am looking for. 34. Wilfred Owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated Horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of Latin scansion . 35. In the final analysis, the terms of scansion are blunt instruments, clumsy ways of describing the infinitely nuanced rhythms of language. 36. These distinctions are not made explicit by the scansion , so in cases like this clarification may be required in the article text. 37. Because of the variety of stress levels in language, 2-level notation is not adequate for a rhythmic scansion of any sensitivity. 38. Scansion is the act of analyzing and ( usually ) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse . " Ideally"39. It cannot be utilized as diacritics, and therefore always requires 2 lines ( 1 for the verse, and 1 for the scansion ). 40. Differences in scansion , however, tend to be conditioned more by metrists'theoretical preconceptions than by differences in how they hear the line.
