Scansion by EXZENYA is an impassioned, expressive piece of music written in gorgeous, rhythmical words that define the all-powerful draw of romantic longing. The text entails the all-over feeling that exists in the face of doubt, need, and extreme exposure of the heart. What EXZENYA contributes, in every line, is the imagery of feeling good in the midst of surprise romance, yet without ever, in a straightforward, yet ingenious, manner, employing poetical ideas in the storyline of feeling.

Another characteristic of the song is that the word “scansion” is repeated several times, the word of the verse that involves the use of the analysis of the tempo of the verse line. EXZENYA softens the otherwise technical word scansion, making it sensuous. EXZENYA places the word side by side, in the sense of a metaphor, that is, she puts side by side her feeling, the sensation of the skin, the pulsation of the bond. The analogy creates a new, original reading of the theme of longings, romantic jealousy.

In the song, EXZENYA conveys the feeling of hesitancy and all-engulfing want. At the beginning, she wraps herself in other identities, questioning if the feeling is obvious or if they even should be. Vulnerability makes density in what she feels, making the risk of the feeling substantial and real. It produces an overwhelming feeling of imbalance between how inaccessible the other must be and how all-engulfing the experience of want becomes. It is that pull in one direction by fear, another by want that generates the density of the song emotionally.

Both the lyrical imagery are in motion, in rapture. Phrases such as the “whirlwind of boundless passion” and “deafening madness” indicate that EXZENYA isn’t frozen in a crowd—she’s being carried away by something wild, yet tangible. These words frame the feeling in terms that are immediate, corporeally, psychological, in that they’re being overwhelmed by the heartbeat of the rapport. What the feeling isn’t, however, are peaceful, secure, or predictable. It is enervating, unpredictable, daunting.

Throughout the duration of the song, there is a moment of turning in terms of the relationship being actualized. When the other lover instigates the action, reaching out towards the other, essentially taking EXZENYA on a date, the lyrics change from longings to rapture at the experience of mutual acceptance. The cold caress and the sense that somehow it’s all about “fate” are of the dreamlike eros variety. It’s here that the cadence of their feeling begins to synchronize, that the sense of the word “scansion” expands in a communal, rather than private, sense.

Another intelligent lyrical choice here is the evocation of the “scanned” idea. EXZENYA reverses the idea of scansion in poems, in that the idea of scansion becomes romantic, in the sense that the other “scanned” the movement of the singer and kept up. There is intimacy that arises here, in that the love can be compared to reading the poems line by line, in complete understanding. It’s a gentle yet powerful idea that bedecks the song title and chorus.

That repetition of the chorus has the function of reinforcing the experience that now has become all-engulfing. It’s daily excitement, the same beat, the same experience, yet the feeling of doing it never becomes stale. It instead enriches the other, much the same way that a piece of writing always grows in new,beautiful ways. EXZENYA’s writing in “Scansion” is wonderful, evocative, original. Experiencing something deeply human, that is, being in love and being totally overwhelmed by the experience, she reflects that in the romantic vocabulary of the poet. Romantic, passionate, dreamlike, the rhythm of the poem reflects the throb of the heartbeat.