![]() Scansion: from the Latin scandere, “to move upward by steps.” Scansion is the science of scanning, of dividing a line of poetry into its constituent parts. x / x / x / x / x / x / x / “’Tis some vis- i- tor,” I mut- tered, “tap- ping at my cham- ber door / x / x / x / On- ly this, and noth- ing more.” Poe’s “The Raven”-Trochaic Octameter / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x Once up- on a mid- night drear- y, while I pon- dered weak and wear- y / x / x x / x / x x / x / x / x / O- ver man- y a quaint and cur- i- ous vol- ume of for- got- ten lore, / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x While I nod- ded, near- ly nap- ping, sud- den- ly there came a tap- ping, / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / As of some- one gent- ly rap- ping, rap- ping at my cham- ber door. ēnīxa est uterō pulcherrima plēnō (3.Latin Meter: an introduction Dactylic Hexameter Lines will always end with a spondee, and when they end with two spondees, they are said to be spondaic lines.Ħ Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 – u u| – uu|- – | – – | – u u | – –ħ Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 caerula Līriopē, quam quondam flūmine curvō (3.342)ĩ Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 – u u | – – | \ – u u|- – | – u u | – –ġ0 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 vim tulit. Also note that both lines end with a dactyl followed by a spondee, this is formulaic and more than likely the way most lines will end. Notice the elision marked by a slash (\) in 344. This is rare, but usually comes at a break in the line to add emphasis.ĥ Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Below are a two lines scanned as an example. Hiatus refers to when elision could occur but does not. This means the first syllable is not pronounced or scanned and the second becomes long. When a word ends with a vowel or a vowel then the letter m, and the next word in the line begins with a vowel or the letter h and then a vowel, the first syllable elides into the second. One last complication in Latin scansion is elision. Breaks between feet can be marked with a line (|) for clarity to see more easily the breakdown of the line. Long vowels are marked with a dash (-) and short vowels are marked with a u-shape (u). There are, of course, certain exceptions to these rules.Ĥ Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Scansion is the process of marking syllables either long or short to figure out the composition of dactyls and spondees in a line. Vowels can be turned long by position if it is directly followed by two or more consonants, double consonants, the letter x, or z. Diphthongs ( ae, au, ei, eu, oe, ui ) are long by nature. Long vowels are those that are long by nature or long by position. Syllables and the vowels contained in them can be either long or short. It is customary though for lines to be heavily dominated by dactyls, as the meters name suggests however, authors use spondees to dramatize emotion and simply because the words they are using demand it. A spondee is 2 syllables: both are long.ģ Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The breakdown of each line can be any combination of dactyls and spondees, provided there are only six total. A dactyl is 3 syllables total: the first is long, the next two are short. In the case of the Metamorphoses, a foot can be either a dactyl or a spondee. A foot is a certain number of syllables, which can be either long or short. This type of meter must have six feet in each line of Latin. The Metamorphoses is composed in Dactylic Hexameter. Because Latin poetry was performed aloud, meter conveys emotion and life through the sounds of the text. ![]() 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Latin poetry is written within the confines of meter. ![]()
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