SCANSION PRACTICE WITH ANSWERS FULL

(Answers and suggestions are on the next page.) 1. It looks like researchers making progress on an auto-scansion tool detailed their findings about ZeuScansion. Scansion Practice Try scanning these poems and see if you can make comments about how the meter enhances the meaning of the poem in any way. These are the poem’s planned prosodic accidents, its signal idiosyncrasies Try it, and you’ll see the poem’s rhythmic discrepancies brought out in new color. At that point a Syncopation checkbox appears next to the others down below.

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town.

SCANSION PRACTICE WITH ANSWERS FULL

One more feature, which 4B4V displays only once your scansion of the full text is correct. Try scanning these poems and see if you can make comments about how the meter enhances the meaning of the poem in any way. A green, red, or yellow light will let you know you’ve scanned the line correctly, incorrectly, or somehow problematically. 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). That’s the kind of verse that remained standard in English during the half millennium from Chaucer’s age until the time of Hardy, Yeats, and Frost. Here you can get practice and instant feedback in one important way of analyzing, and developing an ear and a feel for, accentual-syllabic verse.

It’s an interactive on-line tutorial that can train you to scan traditionally metered English poetry. This might help with the identifying-meter educational part of it.

Scansion practice with answers