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Nash’s are hard to decipher anyway; because rhyme and scansion aren’t her thing, the ear gets no help.

Clarity for lyricists has to refer not just to scansion and word choice, but also how their songs are communicated.

There’s something about Shakespeare and the language that, as a Black performer, I naturally get: the rhythms, the scansion, the iambic pentameter.

While other poets might spend years studying the scansion of poetry, she said she’s not as interested in form.

Donaldson is obsessed with scansion – where the stresses fall in a line.