Recent Examples on the WebClarity for lyricists has to refer not just to scansion and word choice, but also how their songs are communicated. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 And this is not to touch upon the scansion; forms were, for Valéry, crucial and complex. Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 And replacing Shakespearean scansion with looser Seuss-ish rhyme schemes would add to the comedy and make the long bouts of exposition at the beginning and end of the play less tedious. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin scansion-, scansio, from Latin, act of climbing, from scandere