9/16/2023 0 Comments Scansion warmup![]() ![]() As you move the cursor just above a line of verse, the space above each syllable glows. Click once over a syllable to mark it as stressed, twice as unstressed (slack) a third click clears the air for a fresh start. Once you’ve marked each syllable to reflect your reading of the line - and we’ll get soon to some guidelines for doing that - cursor over to the right of the box and click the first icon (arrows). ![]() A green, red, or yellow light will let you know you’ve scanned the line correctly, incorrectly, or somehow problematically. If at first you don’t succeed, this is the place to try, try again. Moving the cursor directly across the verse line highlights the printed syllables one by one. By clicking within the text you can divide the emerging pattern of stresses and slacks into the constituent units that prevail in English metrics: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic. (Feel free, at any point in this overview or anywhere else on the site, to look up unfamiliar terms by clicking the Glossary tab above.) These are called feet, as you’ll be reminded when you cursor to the right and click on the middle icon (footprints) to see how you did with this part of the exercise. Once you’ve gotten the green light here, click on the last icon (triangle) to open a drop-down menu from which to identify the meter of the scanned line: e.g., iambic tetrameter. Stress and foot patterns are interdependent. ![]() But sometimes you’ll want to concentrate visually on just one of them, so at the bottom of the Poem workbox are checkboxes that permit you to toggle your stress or foot marks on and off. ![]()
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