Terms and Conditions of Use

Scansion Tool provides free, open-access computational prosody software, phonetic rhyme analyzers, syllable counters, and educational literature reference materials. These services are provided free of charge for personal, creative writing, academic, pedagogical, and scholarly research purposes.

By utilizing any portion of our site, you represent that you have read, understood, and agree to adhere to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the website and services immediately.

You retain complete, exclusive, and unencumbered copyright ownership over all poems, literary manuscripts, translations, and text that you input, scan, or analyze using Scansion Tool.

Creative Sovereignty Clause: Scansion Tool claims zero ownership, license rights, or commercial permissions over your creative work. Your text is processed exclusively in your local browser memory and is never transmitted, retained, or licensed by us. You are free to publish, sell, distribute, or copyright any literary work analyzed with our tools without attribution or licensing fees.

The underlying software code, web architecture, interface designs, logos, typography, visual charts, and editorial guides published on scansiontool.com are the proprietary intellectual property of Scansion Tool and its contributors, protected under applicable international copyright and trademark laws.

Educators, researchers, and academic institutions are granted permission to print and distribute PDF scansion keys and worksheets generated through the platform for non-commercial educational classroom instruction and study groups.

When accessing or utilizing Scansion Tool, you agree not to:

• Attempt to disrupt, overload, or compromise the stability, performance, or security of our hosting infrastructure or Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
• Deploy automated scrapers, bots, or extraction crawlers that cause excessive network traffic or circumvent site architecture.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or frame the website within third-party commercial applications without prior written authorization.
• Use the platform for any unlawful, fraudulent, or malicious purposes under applicable local, national, or international laws.

Poetic prosody is an expressive, artistic human discipline influenced by dialect, historical era, performance intention, and authorial license. While our algorithms achieve exceptional accuracy based on standard phonetic dictionaries (CMU) and classical metrical rules, automated scansion serves as an analytical reference tool rather than an immutable literary authority.

Users are encouraged to utilize our interactive override features to adjust stress values to reflect specific performance interpretations, historical accents, and aesthetic nuances.

Scansion Tool is provided strictly on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular academic purpose, and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Scansion Tool, its developers, operators, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of, or inability to use, the platform or any generated reports.

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